BLOCK UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does block up mean? 

• BLOCK UP (verb)
  The verb BLOCK UP has 1 sense:

1. render unsuitable for passage

  Familiarity information: BLOCK UP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLOCK UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Render unsuitable for passage

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

bar; barricade; block; block off; block up; blockade; stop

Context example:

stop the busy road

Hypernyms (to "block up" is one way to...):

block; close up; impede; jam; obstruct; obturate; occlude (block passage through)

Verb group:

block; obstruct (shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight)

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

block off; close off; shut off (block off the passage through)

close (bar access to)

Sentence frames:

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