English > obturate: 1 sense > verb 1, contact| Meaning | Block passage through. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
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| Synonyms | obstruct, impede, occlude, jam, block, close up |
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| Narrower | barricade, barricado | block off with barricades |
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| barricade | prevent access to by barricading |
| barricade, block, blockade, stop, block off, block up, bar | Render unsuitable for passage |
| blockade, block off | obstruct access to |
| clog, choke off, clog up, back up, congest, choke, foul | Become or cause to become obstructed |
| dam, dam up | obstruct with, or as if with, a dam |
| land up, earth up | Block with earth, as after a landslide |
| screen, block out | prevent from entering |
| suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate, choke | impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of |
| tie up | Restrain from moving or operating normally |
| Broader | impede, hinder | Be a hindrance or obstacle to |
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| Opposite | free, disengage | Free or remove obstruction from |
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| Spanish | bloquear, entorpecer, estorbar, obstaculizar, obstruir, ocluir |
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| Catalan | blocar, obstruir |
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| Nouns | obturator | a prosthesis used to close an opening (as to close an opening of the hard palate in cases of cleft palate) |
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