单词 | occlude |
释义 | occlude (once / 27297 pages) v Occlude means to obstruct, as with an opening. You hear this a lot in a medical context. Heart surgeons are looking for occlusions in blood vessels––things that occlude the flow of blood. Occlude does not exist only in a medical context. If you close the bathroom door so your little brother won't come in while you're trying out makeup with your friends, you're occluding the bathroom. Meanwhile, your makeup occludes your pores. WORD FAMILYocclude: occluded, occludes, occluding, occlusion, occlusive+/occlusion: occlusions USAGE EXAMPLESHe opened the most occluded vessel with a metal stent, and Mr. Taylor’s pain went away. Wall Street Journal(Jul 11, 2016) Her seventh Wimbledon plate would be large enough to help occlude her galling loss to Roberta Vinci in a U.S. Washington Post(Jul 09, 2016) Like that book, “Look” feels like a disassembled museum exhibit with the occluded stories — the ones not told — written into view. Los Angeles Times(Jul 08, 2016) v block passage through Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper block, close up, impede, jam, obstruct, obturate 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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