obstruct
English
/əbˈstɹʌkt/
verb
Definitions
- To block or fill (a passage) with obstacles or an obstacle.
- To impede, retard, or interfere with; hinder.
- To get in the way of so as to hide from sight.
Etymology
Root from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (strew, spread, spread out, scatter, spread around).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*strew-
Gloss
strew, spread, spread out, scatter, spread around
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antiobstructive English
- constructible English
- constructional English
- constructionism English
- constructive English
- constructivism English
- constructivist English
- deobstruct English
- deobstructive English
- destruct English
- destructible English
- destructively English
- destructiveness English
- destructivity English
- disobstruct English
- disobstruction English
- nonobstructive English
- obstructer English
- obstructive English
- obstructively English
- obstructiveness English
- postobstructive English
- unobstructive English
- constructio Latin
- constructus Latin
- construere Latin
- construo Latin
- cōnstructiō Latin
- destructio Latin
- destructio, dēstructiōnem, dēstructiō Latin
- destructivus Latin
- destruo Latin
- dēstruō Latin
- instrumentalis Latin
- obstructio Latin
- strava Latin
- strues Latin
- *strew- Proto-Indo-European
- *straupijaną Proto-Germanic
- *strawjaną Proto-Germanic
- *streuną Proto-Germanic
- strȳnd Old English
- misconstruen Middle English
- *strowō Proto-Italic
- стройи Old East Slavic
- destruct
- deobstruct
- obstructer
- disobstruct
- obstructive
- destructible
- constructive
- unobstructive
- destructively
- deobstructive
- obstructively
- destructivity
- constructible
- disobstruction
- nonobstructive
- constructional
- constructivism
- constructivist
- constructionism
- postobstructive
- destructiveness
- antiobstructive
- obstructiveness