0 past simple and past participle of obstruct
1 to block a road, passage, entrance, etc. so that nothing can go along it, or to prevent something from happening correctly by putting difficulties in its way:
After the earthquake many roads were obstructed by collapsed buildings.
to obstruct a police investigation
UK He got five years in prison for withholding evidence and obstructing the course of justice.
This latter arrangement precludes a transjunctional incision should the infundibulum be obstructed.
It follows that securing a successor or supplementary manpower was difficult and the smooth development from one family life-cycle stage to another was often obstructed.
In acute angle-closure glaucoma the trabecular meshwork is obstructed by the iris as it dilates, resulting in a rapid pressure rise, pain and decreased vision.
It also helps where the disabled robot becomes obstructed or jammed and needs pushing from a slightly different direction.
The excise duties effectively obstructed this process in the brickmaking industry itself.
Yet, as there has often been no general consensus on adequate strategies to overcome the perceived challenges, such effective coordination is obstructed by domestic struggles.
The state's implementation of conscription was obstructed by limited bureaucratic and coercive capacity, and by the continued political autonomy of the regions.
There is a significant technological hurdle that has obstructed composers from freely availing themselves of arbitrary sounds and sound transformations in the all-sound world.
