- Obstruct - Obstruct passage - Obstruction in a pipe - The shutting up of a place by troops or ships, with
the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the reception of
supplies; as, the blockade of the ports of an enemy. - An obstruction to passage. - To shut up, as a town or fortress, by investing it
with troops or vessels or war for the purpose of preventing ingress or
egress, or the introduction of supplies. See note under Blockade, n. - Hence, to shut in so as to prevent egress.
- Major artery - A frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at
right angles and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of
beasts, but admitting a person to pass between the arms; a turnstile.
See Turnstile, 1. - A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages,
animals, and sometimes people, till toll is paid for keeping the road
in repair; a tollgate. - A turnpike road. - A winding stairway. - A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a
cheval-de-frise. - To form, as a road, in the manner of a turnpike road;
into a rounded form, as the path of a road.
- Asphyxiate - Gag - Strangle - Struggle for breath - Suffocate - To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or
squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle. - To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to
block up.
- Cycle of prosperity; ... and bust - Low resounding noise - Movie lot's ... mic - Period of great prosperity - Prosperous period - Sound barrier crash noise, sonic ... - Sound of an explosion
- Anticipate - deliberately put off - Hinder by anticipating - prevent in advance - Thwart in advance - To take beforehand, or in advance; to anticipate. - To take possession of, in advance of some one or
something else, to the exclusion or detriment of the latter; to get
ahead of; to preoccupy; also, to exclude, hinder, or prevent, by prior
occupation, or by measures taken in advance.
- Barrier - Hastily erected obstruction - Obstruction - A fortification, made in haste, of trees, earth,
palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or
attack of an enemy. It is usually an obstruction formed in streets to
block an enemy's access. - Any bar, obstruction, or means of defense. - To fortify or close with a barricade or with barricades;
to stop up, as a passage; to obstruct; as, the workmen barricaded the
streets of Paris.