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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
obstruct .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective shut off to passage or view or hindered from action
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Examples
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In side the larger cage, the door was obstructed from the view of the ‘lurking monster’.
Think Progress » War on Christmas Fraud Exposed: The Silent Night “Rewrite” That Wasn’t 2005
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The Loud Crowd is another name for the Limited View Terrace Seats, also known as the obstructed view seats, which were added to FedEx Field in 2004.
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But the knotty mass of scar tissue left by Scait's sword obstructed his voice, and he barely managed to croak.
Shadowfane Wurts, Janny 1988
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Scooter Libby "obstructed" an investigation of the leak that exposed Valerie Plame.
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Nixon would have been impeached and most certainly removed for having "obstructed" the Watergate inquiry.
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When they do this show here, they've got to work on three time zones, so you couldn't have the live voting at the end of the show, so they were kind of obstructed because they had to use votes from the last show that laid over into the final show.
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Women bearing twins are more likely to have complications such as obstructed or prolonged labour.
Chapter 13 1995
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[48] Tympany is defined by Johnson, "A kind of obstructed flatulence that swells the body like a drum."
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 Various
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To the first question I reply: No. The pursuit was "obstructed" by the enemy's troops at Centreville, as I have stated in my official report.
Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon
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So large and resistent a body as the head of the humerus displaced forwards, and taking the natural position of these vessels and nerves, will accordingly be attended with other symptoms -- such as obstructed circulation and pain or partial paralysis, besides those physical signs by which we distinguish the presence of it as a new body in its abnormal situation.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
dbekeny commented on the word obstructed
WIZARD
As for you, my galvanized friend, you want
a heart! You don't know how lucky you are
not to have one. Hearts will never be
practical until they can be made
unbreakable. I could have been a world
figure, a power among men, a - a successful
wizard, had I not been obstructed by a heart.
June 11, 2010