obstruct
IPA: ʌbstrˈʌkt
verb
- To block or fill (a passage) with obstacles or an obstacle. See synonyms at block.
- To impede, retard, or interfere with; hinder.
- To get in the way of so as to hide from sight.
Examples of "obstruct" in Sentences
- He is the being obstructive here.
- The road is blocked with obstruction.
- Check the contactor and remove the obstruction.
- The remainder of the baffle is light obstructing.
- That's pretty much the definition of obstructive.
- It was forbidden to obstruct the race or the sluice.
- First, that the influence of the home is obstructive.
- Choking is the prevention of air passage because of the obstruction.
- Fish are the most common food to obstruct the airway and cause choking.
- Gallstones can enter and obstruct the cystic duct, preventing the flow of bile.
- The first thing they do after getting back the full power to obstruct is Shelby shaking down Obama for billions?
- Obviously, the Republicans 'desire to obstruct is not based on concerns about qualifications, or, in some cases, even ideology.
- “Tory leader David Cameron has warned the SNP not to "obstruct" a replacement for the Trident missile system if his party wins the next election”
- And the only reason why the Republican Party has been able to obstruct is because of the filibuster (more accurately, Senate rules, but close enough.).
- What does an opposition party do exactly if it doesn't "obstruct" a weak and unpopular President from shoving extremist legislation down the country's collective throat?
- They offer no alternatives, no workable plans and in a time of crisis they linger, allowing more destruction and disaster to take place against the will of the majority for purely political reasons ... to "obstruct" implementing any real change.
- But he goes on, — “The apostle advanceth towards his proposed end, and adds, ‘Those whom he called, them he also justified,’ or decreed to justify, in case the called obstruct him not in his way, or by their unbelief render not themselves incapable of justification.”
- The apostle advanceth towards his proposed end, and addeth, ‘Those whom he called, them he also justified;’ that is, according to our last exposition of the word ‘called,’ he hath purposed or decreed to justify, — to wit, in case the called obstruct him not in his way, or by their unbelief render not themselves incapable of justification.