[syn: blocked, plugged]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Block \Block\ (bl[o^]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blocked
(bl[o^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Blocking.] [Cf. F. bloquer, fr.
bloc block. See Block, n.]
1. To obstruct so as to prevent passage or progress; to
prevent passage from, through, or into, by obstructing the
way; -- used both of persons and things; -- often followed
by up; as, to block up a road or harbor; to block an
entrance.
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With moles . . . would block the port. --Rowe.
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A city . . . besieged and blocked about. --Milton.
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2. To secure or support by means of blocks; to secure, as two
boards at their angles of intersection, by pieces of wood
glued to each.
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3. To shape on, or stamp with, a block; as, to block a hat.
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4. to cause (any activity) to halt by creating an
obstruction; as, to block a nerve impulse; to block a
biochemical reaction with a drug.
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To block out, to begin to reduce to shape; to mark out
roughly; to lay out; to outline; as, to block out a plan.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
blocked \blocked\ adj.
1. closed to traffic. Traffic was blocked by an overturned
tractor-trailor
Syn: out of use(predicate).
[WordNet 1.5]
2. at a complete standstill because of opposition of two
unrelenting forces or factions.
Syn: deadlocked, stalemated.
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3. unusable because of some obstruction.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
blocked
adj 1: closed to traffic; "the repaving results in many blocked
streets" [syn: blocked, out of use(p)]
2: completely obstructed or closed off; "the storm was
responsible for many blocked roads and bridges"; "the drain
was plugged" [syn: blocked, plugged]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
57 Moby Thesaurus words for "blocked":
Lethean, absentminded, amnestic, arrested, back, backward,
behindhand, belated, bound, choked, choked up, clogged, clogged up,
congested, constipated, converted, costive, delayed,
delayed-action, detained, forgetful, forgetting, foul, fouled,
full, heedless, held up, hung up, in a bind, in abeyance,
inclined to forget, infarcted, jammed, late, latish, moratory,
never on time, oblivious, obstipated, obstructed, overdue, packed,
plugged, plugged up, repressed, retarded, slow, stopped,
stopped up, stuffed, stuffed up, suppressed, tardy, unmindful,
unpunctual, unready, untimely