What are the antonyms for OBSTRUCT?
- excavate, push, abet, further, assist, unplug, uncover, accelerate, hollow, free, untie, clear, unblock, facilitate, forward, release, scoop, open, start, let go, encourage, unmask, aid, begin, smooth, support, help, liberate, permit, lay bare, make way, disengage, advance, boost, lighten, allow, promote, reveal, continue, loosen, Unstop, empty.
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Synonyms for OBSTRUCT
- thwart,
- avert,
- blocked,
- tape up,
- baulk,
- inter-woven,
- weight,
- laid aside,
- set aside,
- cork,
- drop anchor,
- bane,
- unbalancing,
- put a damper on,
- discourage,
- injurious,
- strangulates,
- bung up,
- drag feet,
- draw rein,
- act like a wet blanket,
- baffle,
- Loitered,
- lock up,
- out maneuver,
- double cross,
- hold in,
- over-ride,
- close tight,
- block up,
- jammed,
- stand still,
- full,
- took out,
- remands,
- seal off,
- knock props out,
- hitch,
- tie up,
- bind,
- baneful,
- gibbet,
- talk out of,
- sieged,
- ruin,
- bog,
- embarrass,
- foul up,
- head off,
- Shrouded,
- Girdled,
- strangulating,
- hangs fire,
- barricade,
- mix in,
- pin down,
- nullify,
- clip the wings,
- locked up,
- Negatived,
- stymy,
- disadvantageous,
- when,
- leash,
- Estop,
- keep out,
- queered,
- render null and void,
- hamstring,
- wedge,
- obstruct,
- queers,
- Bitted,
- abash,
- Remitted,
- exclude,
- fetter,
- tongue tie,
- Scotched,
- holed,
- fence off,
- muck up,
- shackle,
- association,
- Garroting,
- staunched,
- bring to screeching halt,
- dispute,
- sell,
- matted,
- scatters,
- shipwreck,
- closed off,
- accordance,
- queering,
- forestall,
- hurtful,
- bust in,
- disincline,
- confound,
- Holing,
- Thronging,
- hedge in,
- ease up,
- reins in,
- interfered with,
- get in the way,
- cease,
- difficulty,
- dam,
- Forelay,
- intercept,
- break train of thought,
- closing off,
- destructive,
- tamp,
- Proroguing,
- head off at pass,
- upset apple cart,
- keeping back,
- prorogues,
- break into,
- Repulsing,
- keep from,
- gridlocked,
- cover up,
- obscure,
- put lock on,
- discouragement,
- freeze out,
- call it a day,
- end,
- throw monkey wrench in,
- up,
- Parried,
- coop,
- intervenes,
- interfere with,
- held in,
- corked,
- Negativing,
- fill,
- boxes in,
- keep mum,
- lessen,
- Scotching,
- restrain,
- bring to end,
- concord,
- Caged,
- Torpedoes,
- put the chill on,
- blockaded,
- fall silent,
- chime in,
- dummy up,
- lays aside,
- hold out,
- foul,
- stuff,
- finished off,
- jam up,
- fool with,
- shuttering,
- debar,
- detain,
- negate,
- box in,
- give run around,
- putting on hold,
- reduce speed,
- shut off,
- stoppered,
- lose ground,
- disturb,
- Stoppled,
- mob,
- grasping,
- heckle,
- insure against,
- dead-end,
- guard against,
- drag,
- intermeddles,
- scare off,
- shut,
- up set,
- blow whistle on,
- put an end to,
- enjoin,
- TAMPS,
- keep off,
- standstill,
- inhibits,
- put out of action,
- blinding,
- reduce,
- dam up,
- avoid,
- turning aside,
- hamper,
- put half nelson on,
- parry,
- ingurgitate,
- take away,
- Intermitted,
- torpedo,
- censor,
- held over,
- Remanded,
- burden,
- cramp one's style,
- interfering with,
- Wedging,
- deflect,
- ease off,
- hobble,
- stump,
- cool it,
- pin,
- gag,
- damaging,
- interruption,
- make a party to,
- stave,
- interfere,
- binge,
- confine,
- encumbrance,
- fortify,
- shuttered,
- stuff up,
- deny,
- clogged,
- tangle,
- right,
- cripple,
- Intersected,
- close down,
- lock,
- button up,
- holds back,
- embargo,
- heckling,
- Garroted,
- withstand,
- consonance,
- Jostled,
- infringe,
- sandbagged,
- closing down,
- sandbag,
- shortstop,
- pig out,
- keep back,
- clam up,
- rein in,
- put on back burner,
- stanch,
- contradict,
- box up,
- stay,
- Intertwist,
- make party to,
- prevent,
- drag into,
- crowd,
- Intermitting,
- kept at bay,
- put a stop to,
- catch,
- rein,
- bolt,
- staunch,
- fend off,
- intermeddled,
- lay over,
- interfering,
- sieging,
- passes on,
- stops up,
- complicate,
- constrain,
- get in the way of something,
- putting in,
- brake,
- dropping anchor,
- drag one's feet,
- Bulwarking,
- pass on,
- siege,
- interrupt,
- snafued,
- neutralize,
- confront,
- Intermeddle,
- clutter,
- Bottled,
- put lid on,
- act against,
- saddle with,
- strangulate,
- put in order,
- protract,
- edge in,
- Strangulated,
- screening,
- ignore,
- keep the lid on,
- withholds,
- turn aside,
- Tabooing,
- hold at bay,
- once,
- took away,
- intermediating,
- angry,
- snarl,
- squeeze,
- delay,
- meddle,
- reprieve,
- vandalize,
- put chill on,
- bide time,
- crab,
- fractured,
- freeze,
- DAMPS,
- slowed down,
- kibosh,
- zinging,
- corking,
- stem,
- duelling,
- cloud,
- mows down,
- Gibbeted,
- bother,
- hang back,
- fill up,
- lock out,
- fettered,
- dashed hope,
- remand,
- Harnessing,
- blur,
- stunt,
- suppress,
- inhibit,
- arrest,
- bog down,
- torpedoed,
- caulk,
- hold,
- Clogging,
- bottlenecked,
- out wit,
- blinded,
- got involved,
- Shying,
- contravene,
- halt,
- preempt,
- overeat,
- peace,
- defeat,
- agreement,
- countervail,
- rule out,
- ram,
- bottleneck,
- corking up,
- procrastination,
- immobilize,
- frighten away,
- belt up,
- leaves out,
- have bone to pick,
- ward off,
- indigent,
- plays for time,
- cramp style,
- Entrammel,
- mowed down,
- let down,
- cover,
- throw a curve,
- slow,
- forget,
- locking up,
- stave off,
- jampack,
- scotches,
- Disfavored,
- object,
- intimidate,
- constipate,
- impede,
- breaking into,
- standing still,
- bring to a screeching halt,
- cross,
- moderate,
- shutting out,
- sandbagging,
- engorge,
- chock,
- stifle,
- tied,
- wedged,
- over-run,
- abort,
- cut in on,
- snooker,
- setting aside,
- satiate,
- torpedoing,
- Intermeddling,
- play for time,
- leaving out,
- hogtie,
- locks up,
- Disfavoring,
- destitute,
- regress,
- adverse,
- shield,
- show,
- hinder,
- cork up,
- pile,
- hedge,
- busybodied,
- Entrapped,
- conformity,
- intermediated,
- abbreviate,
- jam,
- battle,
- anticipate,
- wadded,
- asphyxiated,
- dissuade,
- handicap,
- Prolonging,
- challenge,
- harmony,
- strangle,
- bollix,
- Fracturing,
- drive in,
- Suppressing,
- spare,
- postpone,
- glut,
- trammel,
- kept back,
- controvert,
- last,
- cumber,
- oppress,
- garrote,
- bollixing,
- over-burden,
- Noosing,
- blocking,
- adequate,
- relax,
- keeps out,
- play off,
- choke up,
- stopple,
- choking off,
- seal,
- dash one's hope,
- says no,
- upset the apple cart,
- bring to standstill,
- ailment,
- precarious position,
- blank out,
- upset one's apple cart,
- entangle,
- discontinue,
- suffocate,
- keeping out,
- wall off,
- saddled,
- flummox,
- inhibition,
- set,
- fender,
- closed down,
- hold the line,
- Embargoed,
- handful,
- mixed in,
- shies,
- encumbered,
- obviate,
- Slackened,
- disinclines,
- staunching,
- indispose,
- endure,
- forbid,
- cease fire,
- held down,
- Stoppering,
- dead-ends,
- During,
- conceal,
- Tamped,
- embankment,
- Dueling,
- harmful,
- INS,
- overburdened,
- kept in,
- squash,
- conflict,
- keep lid on,
- teeming,
- Disinclining,
- reef,
- Breaching,
- terminate,
- choked off,
- buffer,
- Damped,
- obstruction,
- gainsay,
- come to an end,
- stopped up,
- defend against,
- hold down,
- over-runs,
- puts in,
- decelerate,
- weighting,
- jamming,
- scarf out,
- covers up,
- choking,
- put a cork in,
- crush,
- barrier,
- choke,
- garrotes,
- roll back,
- overcrowded,
- hold up,
- cut off,
- stench,
- traverse,
- dangerous,
- screen,
- Manacling,
- combat,
- playing for time,
- taking away,
- be in the way of,
- get in the way of,
- retain,
- defy,
- except,
- impediment,
- drive back,
- saddled with,
- Forfend,
- diminish,
- transversal,
- shut up,
- prevail over,
- Tabooed,
- pack,
- set back,
- choke off,
- compress,
- obtrude,
- beat off,
- outlast,
- Kinking,
- trap,
- gorge,
- hanging,
- weighted,
- hide,
- stab in back,
- fight,
- slack up,
- curb,
- coop up,
- chock up,
- congest,
- prohibit,
- congested,
- stymie,
- sabotage,
- covered up,
- dim,
- belay,
- lag,
- slow up,
- govern,
- sandbags,
- frighten off,
- Saddling,
- oppose,
- proscribe,
- cancel,
- hang up,
- intertwisted,
- crimp,
- poke nose in,
- incommode,
- put the lid on,
- Bunging,
- shut in,
- disagree,
- Bottling,
- Trashed,
- Shelving,
- spike,
- be proof,
- mucked up,
- call a day,
- put off,
- Idled,
- blockade,
- hung,
- defer,
- veto,
- shipwrecks,
- Kinked,
- backpedal,
- nonplus,
- keeps back,
- stopper,
- put out of commission,
- block out,
- obstipate,
- throttle,
- frustrate,
- interdict,
- shove,
- Refusing,
- push back,
- plug,
- put stop to,
- draw a blank,
- limit,
- shut out,
- monkey with,
- entrap,
- balk,
- impeded,
- keeping in,
- bungs,
- gormandize,
- blind,
- protest,
- heads off,
- bar,
- tie one's hands,
- knock something on the head,
- subvert,
- tongue-tie,
- slacken,
- slack off,
- stop,
- blindfold,
- overindulge,
- wad,
- immobilise,
- Embargoing,
- lose speed,
- turned aside,
- keep at bay,
- Remanding,
- crowd in,
- Filibustering,
- spile,
- gourmandize,
- counterattack,
- say no,
- hem in,
- upset,
- mask,
- fend,
- short-circuit,
- gum,
- stonewall,
- intertwisting,
- Inned,
- curtail,
- procrastinate,
- transverse,
- Disadvise,
- sieges,
- tie,
- worked in,
- correspondence,
- be quiet,
- hold back,
- take wind out of sails,
- breached,
- counter,
- Shipwrecking,
- wadding,
- blockading,
- Tamping,
- deleterious,
- turn off,
- lay aside,
- give the run around,
- doublecross,
- outlaw,
- making off with,
- put back,
- bung,
- cramp,
- daunt,
- slow down,
- barring,
- snookered,
- preclude,
- constrict,
- Damping,
- put on brakes,
- passed on,
- baffling,
- covering up,
- obturate,
- detrimental,
- mitigate,
- taking out,
- work in,
- put end to,
- passing on,
- snag,
- Indisposing,
- Bunged,
- finish off,
- hold-down,
- noxious,
- repress,
- put a lock on,
- filibustered,
- Prorogued,
- stop up,
- control,
- clog up,
- holding in,
- dog,
- Paused,
- staunches,
- keep,
- make off with,
- take wind out of,
- Noosed,
- shrouding,
- bridle,
- clog,
- rely on,
- shroud,
- blow the whistle on,
- stall,
- cooped up,
- gain time,
- leave out,
- Gibbeting,
- bottlenecking,
- mire,
- sufficient,
- withhold,
- intermediates,
- paralyze,
- make difficult,
- repulse,
- hold over,
- impair,
- thrust,
- put a stopper in,
- hindrance,
- rebuff,
- counteract,
- get involved,
- played off,
- throw a monkey wrench into,
- obstacle,
- fenced off,
- Stoppling,
- left out,
- weigh down,
- gibbets,
- resist,
- acceptable,
- ban,
- weather,
- hanging fire,
- put damper on,
- give rain check,
- intermit,
- bollixed,
- talking out of,
- close,
- hold off,
- mow down,
- stunting,
- pinion,
- kept out,
- block off,
- close off,
- put in,
- stopples,
- bring to an end,
- nixing,
- throw cold water on,
- tangled,
- gridlock,
- slackens,
- dampen,
- dueled,
- hang fire,
- cram,
- encumber,
- taboo,
- prorogue,
- repel,
- occlude,
- put on ice,
- forbidding,
- mowing down,
- Interrupting,
- slacken pace,
- foil,
- restrict,
- keep in,
- put on hold,
- lug,
- backwater,
- deter,
- interferes with,
- check,
- accord,
- reined in,
- corked up,
- close up,
- Manacled,
- hinders,
- go against,
- declare illegal,
- hold the fort,
- disrupt,
- antagonize,
- block,
- Preventing,
- shutter,
- Bulwarked.
Usage Examples for OBSTRUCT
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Confiding in the zeal and intrepidity of the officers and men I had the happiness to serve with, I determined, if possible, to obstruct the passage of this powerful force to Cadiz. - "Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I" by Sir John Ross
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True, this might have been done had I been operating with a barrel lying upon a plain surface, with nothing around it to obstruct me, and plenty of light to observe the true level. - "The Boy Tar" by Mayne Reid
