| 单词 | obturate |
| 释义 | obturate (once / 123118 pages) v To obturate is to block an opening. Your dentist may obturate the hole where she performed a root canal. If she doesn't, you'll be in some serious pain. The verb obturate is really more formal or technical than an everyday word like "block" or "obstruct," but you can use it as a substitute if you want to. It's more often used to describe the mechanism of a firearm, in which a bullet is designed to obturate the inside of a gun's barrel, increasing the pressure with which it's fired. The Latin root, obturat, means "stopped up." WORD FAMILYobturate: obturating, obturator+/obturator: obturators v block passage through Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper block, close up, impede, jam, obstruct, occlude disengage, free free or remove obstruction from block off, blockade obstruct access to barricade, barricadoblock off with barricades barricadeprevent access to by barricading asphyxiate, choke, stifle, suffocateimpair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of tie uprestrain from moving or operating normally dam, dam upobstruct with, or as if with, a dam block out, screenprevent from entering earth up, land upblock with earth, as after a landslide bar, barricade, block, block off, block up, blockade, stoprender unsuitable for passage back up, choke, choke off, clog, clog up, congest, foulbecome or cause to become obstructed gum upstick together as if with gum block off, close off, shut offblock off the passage through shadeprotect from light, heat, or view closebar access to crap upbecome obstructed or chocked up block, choke up, lug, stuffobstruct silt, silt upbecome chocked with silt hinder, impede be a hindrance or obstacle to |
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