Hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of.

synonyms: block, blockade, embarrass, hinder, stymie, stymy.

Roget 706: hinder, impede, filibuster [U.S.], impedite^†, embarrass.    keep off, stave off, ward off; obviate; avert, antevert^†; turn aside, draw off, prevent, forefend, nip in the bud; retard, slacken, check, let; counteract, countercheck^†; preclude, debar, foreclose, estop [Law]; inhibit etc. 761; shackle etc. (restrain) 751; restrict.    obstruct, stop, stay, bar, bolt, lock; block, block up; choke off; belay, barricade; block the way, bar the way, stop the way; forelay^†; dam up etc. (close) 261; put on the brake etc. n.; scotch the wheel, lock the wheel, put a spoke in the wheel; put a stop to etc. 142; traverse, contravene; interrupt, intercept; oppose etc. 708; hedge in, hedge round; cut off; inerclude^†.    interpose, interfere, intermeddle etc. 682.    cramp, hamper; clog, clog the wheels; cumber; encumber, incumber; handicap; choke; saddle with, load with; overload, lay; lumber, trammel, tie one's hands, put to inconvenience; incommode, discommode; discompose; hustle, corner, drive into a corner.    run foul of, fall foul of; cross the path of, break in upon.    thwart, frustrate, disconcert, balk, foil; faze, feaze^†, feeze [U.S.]; baffle, snub, override, circumvent; defeat etc. 731; spike guns etc. (render useless) 645; spoil, mar, clip the wings of; cripple etc. (injure) 659; put an extinguisher on; damp; dishearten etc. (dissuade) 616; discountenance, throw cold water on, spoil sport; lay a wet blanket, throw a wet blanket on; cut the ground from under one, take the wind out of one's sails, undermine; be in the way of, stand in the way of; act as a drag; hang like a millstone round one's neck.    ... show more

Roget 261: close, occlude, plug; block up, stop up, fill up, bung up, cork up, button up, stuff up, shut up, dam up; blockade, obstruct etc. (hinder) 706; bar, bolt, stop, seal, plumb; choke, throttle; ram down, dam, cram; trap, clinch; put to the door, shut the door.    ... show more

Roget 348: flow, run; meander; gush, pour, spout, roll, jet, well, issue; drop, drip, dribble, plash, spirtle^†, trill, trickle, distill, percolate; stream, overflow, inundate, deluge, flow over, splash, swash; guggle^†, murmur, babble, bubble, purl, gurgle, sputter, spurt, spray, regurgitate; ooze, flow out etc. (egress) 295.    rain hard, rain in torrents, rain cats and dogs, rain pitchforks; pour with rain, drizzle, spit, set in; mizzle^†.    flow into, fall into, open into, drain into; discharge itself, disembogue^†.    [Cause a flow] pour; pour out etc. (discharge) 297; shower down, irrigate, drench etc. (wet) 337; spill, splash.    [Stop a flow] stanch; dam, up etc. (close) 261; obstruct etc. 706.    ... show more

Dutch: belemmeren, bemoeilijken, hinderen, impediëren, remmen, stuiten, verhinderen

Block passage through:
— Obstruct the path.

synonyms: block, close up, impede, jam, obturate, occlude.

Dutch: dichtstoppen, afsluiten, stremmen

Shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight:
— The trees obstruct my view of the mountains.

synonym: block.

Dutch: zicht belemmeren