OBSTRUCTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does obstructed mean? 

• OBSTRUCTED (adjective)
  The adjective OBSTRUCTED has 1 sense:

1. shut off to passage or view or hindered from action

  Familiarity information: OBSTRUCTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OBSTRUCTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shut off to passage or view or hindered from action

Context example:

justice obstructed is not justice

Similar:

barred; barricaded; blockaded (preventing entry or exit or a course of action)

blocked; plugged (completely obstructed or closed off)

choked; clogged (stopped up; clogged up)

deadlocked; stalemated (at a complete standstill because of opposition of two unrelenting forces or factions)

impeded (made difficult or slow)

occluded (closed off)

stopped; stopped-up; stopped up ((of a nose) blocked)

stuffy (affected with a sensation of stoppage or obstruction)

thrombosed (affected with or obstructed by a clot of coagulated blood)

Also:

closed (not open or affording passage or access)

Antonym:

unobstructed (free from impediment or obstruction or hindrance)

 Context examples 

I was like a wild beast that had broken the toils, destroying the objects that obstructed me and ranging through the wood with a stag-like swiftness.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

This creates a void on the night side of Phobos that the plasma flow is obstructed from directly entering.

(Solar Eruptions Could Electrify Martian Moons, NASA)

The IceCube Collaboration research team found that fewer energetic neutrinos made it to IceCube's detector on paths that took them all the way through the Earth than from less obstructed paths, including near-horizontal trajectories.

(Antarctic detector offers first look at how Earth stops high-energy neutrinos in their tracks, National Science Foundation)

The whole of Lucy's behaviour in the affair, and the prosperity which crowned it, therefore, may be held forth as a most encouraging instance of what an earnest, an unceasing attention to self-interest, however its progress may be apparently obstructed, will do in securing every advantage of fortune, with no other sacrifice than that of time and conscience.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Early in the morning, before she had risen, he cleared away the snow that obstructed her path to the milk-house, drew water from the well, and brought the wood from the outhouse, where, to his perpetual astonishment, he found his store always replenished by an invisible hand.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)