All block synonyms

verb block

• obstruct — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
• cut off — If you cut something off, you remove it with a knife or a similar tool.
• prevent — to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
• clog — When something clogs a hole or place, it blocks it so that nothing can pass through.
• thwart — to oppose successfully; prevent from accomplishing a purpose.
• halt — to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
• intercept — to take, seize, or halt (someone or something on the way from one place to another); cut off from an intended destination: to intercept a messenger.
• blockade — A blockade of a place is an action that is taken to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving it.
• stop — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
• deter — To deter someone from doing something means to make them not want to do it or continue doing it.
• hold up — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• stall — a pretext, as a ruse, trick, or the like, used to delay or deceive.
• impede — to retard in movement or progress by means of obstacles or hindrances; obstruct; hinder.
• arrest — If the police arrest you, they take charge of you and take you to a police station, because they believe you may have committed a crime.
• close — When you close something such as a door or lid or when it closes, it moves so that a hole, gap, or opening is covered.
• bar — A bar is a place where you can buy and drink alcoholic drinks.
• hinder — to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
• plug — an apparatus for splitting stone, consisting of two tapered bars (feathers) inserted into a hole drilled into the stone, between which a narrow wedge (plug) is hammered to spread them.
• stopper — a person or thing that stops.
• congest — to crowd or become crowded to excess; overfill
• stymie — Golf. (on a putting green) an instance of a ball's lying on a direct line between the cup and the ball of an opponent about to putt.
• dam — A dam is a wall that is built across a river in order to stop the water flowing and to make a lake.
• choke — When you choke or when something chokes you, you cannot breathe properly or get enough air into your lungs.
• stonewall — to engage in stonewalling.
• tackle — equipment, apparatus, or gear, especially for fishing: fishing tackle.
• charge — If you charge someone an amount of money, you ask them to pay that amount for something that you have sold to them or done for them.
• barricade — A barricade is a line of vehicles or other objects placed across a road or open space to stop people getting past, for example during street fighting or as a protest.
• catch — If you catch a person or animal, you capture them after chasing them, or by using a trap, net, or other device.
• brake — Brakes are devices in a vehicle that make it go slower or stop.
• check — Check is also a noun.
• occlude — to close, shut, or stop up (a passage, opening, etc.).
• fill — to make full; put as much as can be held into: to fill a jar with water.
• block out — If someone blocks out a thought, they try not to think about it.
• close out — to terminate (a client's or other account) on which the margin is inadequate or exhausted, usually by sale of securities to realize cash
• shut out — to put (a door, cover, etc.) in position to close or obstruct.
• hang up — the way in which a thing hangs.
• shut off — the act or time of shutting or closing.
• stop up — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.