Obstructing Synonyms and Antonyms

Shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. shrouding
  2. screening
  3. obscuring
  4. hiding
  5. blocking
  6. concealing
Block passage through
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. impeding
  2. stopping
  3. restraining
  4. preventing
  5. blocking
  6. occluding
  7. damming
  8. interfering
  9. hindering
  10. terminating
  11. thwarting
  12. stymieing
  13. shrouding
  14. screening
  15. retarding
  16. parrying
  17. opposing
  18. jamming
  19. interrupting
  20. inhibiting
  21. incommoding
  22. hampering
  23. foiling
  24. encumbering
  25. delaying
  26. barring
  27. curbing
  28. crimping
  29. congesting
  30. closing
  31. clogging
  32. choking
  33. checking
  34. blockading
  35. besetting
  36. barricading
  37. arresting
Antonyms:
  1. freeing
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. in-the-way
  2. obstruent

Obstructing Sentence Examples

  • Katie frowned.  In the course of a day, Gabe had gone from emotional to unaffected when discussing Death.  He was distracted, and she felt like she was talking to someone completely different.  Blaming herself for taking his mind off of their survival, she fell silent and followed him.   Briars and branches caught her pant legs, and she found herself slowing to push more and more of the jungle's flora out of the way.  Gabe, too, began to struggle with the bramble, and she noticed the jungle no longer laid their path before him.  Instead of clearing away to allow them passage, it stayed where it was, obstructing them.

  • Back pressure on the caecum from an obstructing ascending colonic carcinoma causing a tender caecum may also mimic appendicitis.

  • This includes lying the child on his or her side to prevent the tongue from obstructing breathing.

  • He pinched me for obstructing justice and a whole bunch of stuff.

  • A direct attack on the Danish lines failed, but later in the year Alfred saw a means of obstructing the river so as to prevent the egress of the Danish ships.

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