0 present participle of block
1 to prevent movement through something:
As she left the court, an angry crowd tried to block her way.
She was very talented and I felt her parents were blocking her progress.
A group of politicians blocked the proposal.
Federal agents blocked the accounts of five money-transfer operations in the city.
The carriers said they have rigorous filters to block spam, and they allow customers to block messages from certain numbers.
Prosecutors say Wilson allegedly made the calls from a blocked phone number.
My mom found out that I blocked her on Twitter and gave me another serious talk.
In the Block Users section you should see a list of people you've blocked.
In theory the British government could use its veto to block this proposal.
The road is open now, but it is often blocked by snow in the winter.
From the smell it was evident that the drains had been blocked for several days.
The second plot shows directions of high blocking temperature components also recovered in some clasts.
Research efforts to prevent delayed emesis have been directed at blocking neurotransmitter receptors in the brainstem's vomiting center.
Such a constraint has the further consequence of blocking place assimilation if the target would result in a complex segment.
The upstream front then propagates upstream as the flow piles up (blocking).
