Usually means: Hinder, block, or impede progress.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word Obstruct:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. obstruct: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. obstruct: Merriam-Webster
  3. obstruct: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. obstruct: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. obstruct: Collins English Dictionary
  6. obstruct: Vocabulary.com
  7. Obstruct, obstruct: Wordnik
  8. obstruct: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. obstruct: Wiktionary
  10. obstruct: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. obstruct: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. obstruct: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. obstruct: Dictionary.com
  14. obstruct: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Obstruct: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Obstruct: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. obstruct: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. obstruct: Rhymezone
  19. obstruct: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. obstruct: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. obstruct: FreeDictionary.org
  22. obstruct: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. obstruct: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. obstruct: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. obstruct: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. obstruct: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Obstruct: MedFriendly Glossary
  3. obstruct: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (obstruct)

▸ verb:  To block or fill (a passage) with obstacles or an obstacle. See synonyms at block.
▸ verb:  To impede, retard, or interfere with; hinder.
▸ verb:  To get in the way of so as to hide from sight.

Similar:
hinder, close up, impede, embarrass, occlude, blockade, stymy, block, stymie, jam, more...

Opposite:
facilitate, clear, unblock, open, free

Types:
tree, bridge, fence, wall, crowd, car, dog, person, crocodile, more...

Phrases:
tending to obstruct or cause harm, interrupt obstruct intercept, to obstruct, opposite of obstruct, more...

Adjectives:
certain, few, less, lesse, latter, intestinal

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    black,     gray,     dark brown,     charcoal,     navy blue, more...



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Similar:
hinder, close up, impede, embarrass, occlude, blockade, stymy, block, stymie, jam, more...

Opposite:
facilitate, clear, unblock, open, free

Types:
tree, bridge, fence, wall, crowd, car, dog, person, crocodile, more...

Phrases:
tending to obstruct or cause harm, interrupt obstruct intercept, to obstruct, opposite of obstruct, more...

Adjectives:
certain, few, less, lesse, latter, intestinal

Colors:
    black,     gray,     dark brown,     charcoal,     navy blue, more...



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