Word Meanings - OBSTRUCT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

before or against, to obstruct; ob + struere to pile up. 1. To block up; to stop up or close, as a way or passage; to place an obstacle in, or fill with obstacles or impediments that prevent or hinder passing; as, to obstruct a street;

Additional info about word: OBSTRUCT

before or against, to obstruct; ob + struere to pile up. 1. To block up; to stop up or close, as a way or passage; to place an obstacle in, or fill with obstacles or impediments that prevent or hinder passing; as, to obstruct a street; to obstruct the channels of the body. 'T is the obstructed paths of sound shall clear. Pope. 2. To be, or come, in the way of; to hinder from passing; to stop; to impede; to retard; as, the bar in the harbor obstructs the passage of ships; clouds obstruct the light of the sun; unwise rules obstruct legislation. "Th' impatience of obstructed love." Johnson. Syn. -- To bar; barricade; stop; arrest; check; interrupt; clog; choke; impede; retard; embarrass; oppose.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OBSTRUCT)

• Block
• Stop
• arrest
• fill
• obstruct
• Check Curb
• restrain
• stop
• stay
• repress
• hinder
• impede
• inhibit
• cohibit
• bridle
• control
• Cumber
• Clog
• oppress
• load
• incommode
• Debar
• Exclude
• thwart
• prevent
• deter
• deprive
• disqualify
• deny
• prohibit
• preclude
• Encumber
• Oppress
• clog

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of OBSTRUCT)

• Release
• dismiss
• liberate
• free
• discharge
• expedite
• Neglect
• abandon
• license
• berate
• mismanage
• misconduct

Related words: (words related to OBSTRUCT)

• CHECKWORK
  Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• INHIBITORY
  Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center. I would not have you consider these criticisms as inhibitory. Lamb.
• BLOCKISH
  Like a block; deficient in understanding; stupid; dull. "Blockish Ajax." Shak. -- Block"ish*ly, adv. -- Block"ish*ness, n.
• DEPRIVEMENT
  Deprivation.
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• RELEASE
  To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• BLOCKING
  1. The act of obstructing, supporting, shaping, or stamping with a block or blocks. 2. Blocks used to support temporarily.
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• CONTROLLABLENESS
  Capability of being controlled.
• BLOCK TIN
  See TIN
• CHECKREIN
  1. A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein. 2. A branch rein connecting the driving rein of one horse of a span or pair with the bit of the other horse.
• REPRESSIBLE
  Capable of being repressed.
• INCOMMODE
  To give inconvenience or trouble to; to disturb or molest; to discommode; to worry; to put out; as, we are incommoded by want of room. Syn. -- To annoy; disturb; trouble; molest; disaccomodate; inconvenience; disquiet; vex; plague.
• BLOCK SIGNAL
  One of the danger signals or safety signals which guide the movement of trains in a block system. The signal is often so coupled with a switch that act of opening or closing the switch operates the signal also.
• CUMBER
  To rest upon as a troublesome or useless weight or load; to be burdensome or oppressive to; to hinder or embarrass in attaining an object, to obstruct or occupy uselessly; to embarrass; to trouble. Why asks he what avails him not in fight, And would
• DEBARB
  To deprive of the beard. Bailey.
• DISMISS
  1. To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away. He dismissed the assembly. Acts xix. 41. Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock. Cowper. Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs. Dryden.
• CAUTIONARY BLOCK
  A block in which two or more trains are permitted to travel, under restrictions imposed by a caution card or the like.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.
• TAILBLOCK
  A block with a tail. See Tail, 9.
• PROTUBERATE
  To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out. S. Sharp.
• OVERTHWARTLY
  In an overthwart manner;across; also, perversely. Peacham.