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Blocked   /blɑkt/   Listen
verb
Block  v. t.  (past & past part. blocked; pres. part. blocking)  
1.
To obstruct so as to prevent passage or progress; to prevent passage from, through, or into, by obstructing the way; used both of persons and things; often followed by up; as, to block up a road or harbor; to block an entrance. "With moles... would block the port." "A city... besieged and blocked about."
2.
To secure or support by means of blocks; to secure, as two boards at their angles of intersection, by pieces of wood glued to each.
3.
To shape on, or stamp with, a block; as, to block a hat.
4.
To cause (any activity) to halt by creating an obstruction; as, to block a nerve impulse; to block a biochemical reaction with a drug.
To block out, to begin to reduce to shape; to mark out roughly; to lay out; to outline; as, to block out a plan.


adjective
blocked  adj.  
1.
Closed to traffic. "Traffic was blocked by an overturned tractor-trailor"
Synonyms: out of use(predicate).
2.
At a complete standstill because of opposition of two unrelenting forces or factions.
Synonyms: deadlocked, stalemated.
3.
Unusable because of some obstruction.





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"Blocked" Quotes from Famous Books



... peculiar gaudy saddle hood, ornamented with cowrie-shells, accompanied the march; thousands of sheep and goats, driven by Arab boys, were straggling in all directions; baggage-camels, heavily laden with the quaint household goods, blocked up the way; the fine bronzed figures of Arabs, with sword and shield, and white topes, or plaids, guided their milk-white dromedaries through the confused throng with the usual placid dignity of their race, simply passing by with the ...
— The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia • Samuel W. Baker
... began to collect their valuables and hide them or pack them to carry to a place of safety, if any such place could be found; and throughout the city there were scenes of indescribable confusion. The streets were blocked with furniture and other goods which people were trying to move. All government store-houses were thrown open, and what could not be carried away was left to be plundered by those who rushed in ...
— Ten American Girls From History • Kate Dickinson Sweetser
... would settle all problems for him.... But if he missed? At the mere idea he trembled as he trotted on, trying to tell himself that he couldn't miss. No use; always the coward's "if" blocked him; and the coward's rage,—fiercest of all fury,—ravaged him, almost crazing him with his ...
— The Flaming Jewel • Robert W. Chambers
... "This effected, we blocked up its egressing mouth, that, should our escape be discovered, the enemy might not find the direct ...
— The Scottish Chiefs • Miss Jane Porter
... longitude 109 deg. 31' W.; the wind was at north; the weather mild and not unpleasant; and not a bit of ice in view. This we thought a little extraordinary, as it was but a month before, and not quite two hundred leagues to the east, that we were in a manner blocked up with large islands of ice in this very latitude. Saw a single pintadoe peterel, some blue peterels, and a few brown albatrosses. In the evening, being under the same meridian, and in the latitude ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 14 • Robert Kerr


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