verb [VN]
1 to block a road, an entrance, a passage, etc. so that people cannot get through, see past, etc:
You can't park here, you're obstructing my driveway. * First check that the accident victim doesn't have an obstructed airway. * The pillar obstructed our view of the stage.
2 to prevent sb/sth from doing sth or making progress, especially when this is done deliberately:
They were charged with obstructing the police in the course of their duty. * terrorists attempting to obstruct the peace process
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for obstruct is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does obstruct appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — obstruct appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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