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occlude::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | block, close up, impede, jam, obstruct, obturate |
| Type of | hinder, impede |
| Has types | bar, barricade, barricado, block, block off, block out, block up, blockade, choke, choke off, clog, clog up, congest, dam, dam up, earth up, foul, land up, screen, stifle, stop, suffocate, asphyxiate, tie up, back up |
| Derivation | occlusion, occlusive |
Examples of occlude
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So we have a greater tendency to make thrombi that can occlude the coronary vessels.
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My girlfriend noticed that Jay Cutler's helmet seems to occlude his vision.
From the denverpost.com
What is happening much more is the attempt to occlude the situation from public knowledge.
From the world.time.com
Does our own irrationality occlude our vision at almost every turn?
From the washingtonpost.com
Our experiment did indeed occlude visual feedback, but only during the swing phase of a step.
From the newscientist.com
A notable exception is the Lorwyn elves, whose obsessions with beauty occlude everything else.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Later in their life cycle, cyclones occlude as cold core systems.
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Stimulants, most notoriously methylamphetamine, also occlude the flow of saliva to an extreme degree.
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Grafts can become diseased and may occlude in the months to years after bypass surgery is performed.
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- Obstruct: block passage through; "obstruct the path"
- (occluded) closed off; "an occluded artery"
- (occluded) (of a substance) taken into and retained in another substance; "the sorbed oil mass"; "large volumes of occluded hydrogen in palladium"
- (occlusion) closure or blockage (as of a blood vessel)
- (occlusion) occluded front: (meteorology) a composite front when colder air surrounds a mass of warm air and forces it aloft
- (occlusion) (dentistry) the normal spatial relation of the teeth when the jaws are closed
- (Occlusion (dentistry)) Occlusion, in a dental context, means simply the contact between teeth. More technically, it is the relationship between the maxillary (upper) and mandibular (lower) teeth when they approach each other, as occurs during chewing or at rest.
- To obstruct, cover, or otherwise block an opening
- (occlusion) The process of occluding, or something that occludes; Anything that obstructs or closes a vessel or canal; The alignment of the teeth when upper and lower jaws are brought together; An occluded front; A closure within the vocal tract that produces an oral stop or nasal stop; The ...
