OBTURATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does obturate mean? 

• OBTURATE (verb)
  The verb OBTURATE has 1 sense:

1. block passage through

  Familiarity information: OBTURATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OBTURATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they obturate    ... he / she / it obturates   
Past simple: obturated   
Past participle: obturated   
-ing form: obturating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Block passage through

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

block; close up; impede; jam; obstruct; obturate; occlude

Context example:

obstruct the path

Hypernyms (to "obturate" is one way to...):

hinder; impede (be a hindrance or obstacle to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "obturate"):

block off; blockade (obstruct access to)

barricade; barricado (block off with barricades)

barricade (prevent access to by barricading)

asphyxiate; choke; stifle; suffocate (impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of)

tie up (restrain from moving or operating normally)

dam; dam up (obstruct with, or as if with, a dam)

block out; screen (prevent from entering)

earth up; land up (block with earth, as after a landslide)

bar; barricade; block; block off; block up; blockade; stop (render unsuitable for passage)

back up; choke; choke off; clog; clog up; congest; foul (become or cause to become obstructed)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

obturator (a prosthesis used to close an opening (as to close an opening of the hard palate in cases of cleft palate))