All obstruct synonyms

verb obstruct

• hinder — to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
• thwart — to oppose successfully; prevent from accomplishing a purpose.
• frustrate — to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
• hamper — to hold back; hinder; impede: A steady rain hampered the progress of the work.
• check — Check is also a noun.
• cheque — A cheque is a printed form on which you write an amount of money and who it is to be paid to. Your bank then pays the money to that person from your account.
• complicate — To complicate something means to make it more difficult to understand or deal with.
• prohibit — to forbid (an action, activity, etc.) by authority or law: Smoking is prohibited here.
• prevent — to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
• restrict — to confine or keep within limits, as of space, action, choice, intensity, or quantity.
• block — A block of flats or offices is a large building containing them.
• curb — If you curb something, you control it and keep it within limits.
• cut off — If you cut something off, you remove it with a knife or a similar tool.
• impede — to retard in movement or progress by means of obstacles or hindrances; obstruct; hinder.
• inhibit — to restrain, hinder, arrest, or check (an action, impulse, etc.).
• interfere — to come into opposition, as one thing with another, especially with the effect of hampering action or procedure (often followed by with): Constant distractions interfere with work.
• obscure — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
• retard — to make slow; delay the development or progress of (an action, process, etc.); hinder or impede.
• stall — a pretext, as a ruse, trick, or the like, used to delay or deceive.
• stonewall — to engage in stonewalling.
• stymie — Golf. (on a putting green) an instance of a ball's lying on a direct line between the cup and the ball of an opponent about to putt.
• arrest — If the police arrest you, they take charge of you and take you to a police station, because they believe you may have committed a crime.
• bar — A bar is a place where you can buy and drink alcoholic drinks.
• barricade — A barricade is a line of vehicles or other objects placed across a road or open space to stop people getting past, for example during street fighting or as a protest.
• choke — When you choke or when something chokes you, you cannot breathe properly or get enough air into your lungs.
• clog — When something clogs a hole or place, it blocks it so that nothing can pass through.
• close — When you close something such as a door or lid or when it closes, it moves so that a hole, gap, or opening is covered.
• congest — to crowd or become crowded to excess; overfill
• crab — A crab is a sea creature with a flat round body covered by a shell, and five pairs of legs with large claws on the front pair. Crabs usually move sideways.
• fill — to make full; put as much as can be held into: to fill a jar with water.
• hamstring — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
• hide — Informal. to administer a beating to; thrash.
• interrupt — to cause or make a break in the continuity or uniformity of (a course, process, condition, etc.).
• mask — a form of aristocratic entertainment in England in the 16th and 17th centuries, originally consisting of pantomime and dancing but later including dialogue and song, presented in elaborate productions given by amateur and professional actors.
• occlude — to close, shut, or stop up (a passage, opening, etc.).
• plug — an apparatus for splitting stone, consisting of two tapered bars (feathers) inserted into a hole drilled into the stone, between which a narrow wedge (plug) is hammered to spread them.
• restrain — to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
• sandbag — a bag filled with sand, used in fortification, as ballast, etc.
• shield — a broad piece of armor, varying widely in form and size, carried apart from the body, usually on the left arm, as a defense against swords, lances, arrows, etc.
• stop — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
• stopper — a person or thing that stops.
• terminate — to bring to an end; put an end to: to terminate a contract.
• throttle — Also called throttle lever. a lever, pedal, handle, etc., for controlling or manipulating a throttle valve.
• trammel — Usually, trammels. a hindrance or impediment to free action; restraint: the trammels of custom.
• drag one's feet — to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.
• foul up — something that is foul.
• get in the way — be an obstacle
• hang up — the way in which a thing hangs.
• hold up — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• shut off — the act or time of shutting or closing.