Search Result for "obturate":
Wordnet 3.0
VERB (1)
1. block passage through;
- Example: "obstruct the path"
[syn: obstruct, obturate, impede, occlude, jam, block, close up]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Obturate \Ob"tu*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Obturated; p. pr. & vb. n. Obturating.] [L. obturatus; p.p. of obturare.] To stop or close, as an opening; specif., (Ordnance), to stop (a gun breech) so as to prevent the escape of gas in firing. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
