All get in the way synonyms

verb get in the way

• neutralize — to make neutral; cause to undergo neutralization.
• terminate — to bring to an end; put an end to: to terminate a contract.
• snafu — a badly confused or ridiculously muddled situation: A ballot snafu in the election led to a recount. Synonyms: snarl, bedlam, tumult, disarray, disorder, confusion, mess; foul-up. Antonyms: order, efficiency, calm.
• resist — to withstand, strive against, or oppose: to resist infection; to resist temptation.
• counteract — To counteract something means to reduce its effect by doing something that produces an opposite effect.
• muzzle — the mouth, or end for discharge, of the barrel of a gun, pistol, etc.
• debar — If you are debarred from doing something, you are prevented from doing it by a law or regulation.
• 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.
• crab — A crab is a sea creature with a flat round body covered by a shell, and five pairs of legs with large claws on the front pair. Crabs usually move sideways.
• contravene — To contravene a law or rule means to do something that is forbidden by the law or rule.
• stop — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
• stay — (of a ship) to change to the other tack.
• offset — something that counterbalances, counteracts, or compensates for something else; compensating equivalent.
• bottleneck — A bottleneck is a place where a road becomes narrow or where it meets another road so that the traffic slows down or stops, often causing traffic jams.
• choke — When you choke or when something chokes you, you cannot breathe properly or get enough air into your lungs.
• oppose — to act against or provide resistance to; combat.
• barge in — If you barge in or barge in on someone, you rudely interrupt what they are doing or saying.
• busybody — If you refer to someone as a busybody, you are criticizing the way they interfere in other people's affairs.
• butt in — If you say that someone is butting in, you are criticizing the fact that they are joining in a conversation or activity without being asked to.
• horn in — one of the bony, permanent, hollow paired growths, often curved and pointed, that project from the upper part of the head of certain ungulate mammals, as cattle, sheep, goats, or antelopes.
• step in — (of garments, shoes, etc.) put on by being stepped into.
• get involved — play a part
• intermeddle — to take part in a matter, especially officiously; meddle.
• break in — If someone, usually a thief, breaks in, they get into a building by force.
• come between — If someone or something comes between two people, or comes between a person and a thing, they make the relationship or connection between them less close or happy.
• chime in — If you chime in, you say something just after someone else has spoken.
• edge in — a line or border at which a surface terminates: Grass grew along the edges of the road. The paper had deckle edges.
• lay aside — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
• put in — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
• work in — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
• foul up — something that is foul.
• weigh down — to determine or ascertain the force that gravitation exerts upon (a person or thing) by use of a balance, scale, or other mechanical device: to weigh oneself; to weigh potatoes; to weigh gases.
• shut off — the act or time of shutting or closing.
• tie up — that with which anything is tied.
• hang up — the way in which a thing hangs.
• slow down — moving or proceeding with little or less than usual speed or velocity: a slow train.
• drag one's feet — to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.
• tie one's hands — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
• hold back — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
• shut out — to put (a door, cover, etc.) in position to close or obstruct.
• louse up — any small, wingless insect of the order Anoplura (sucking louse) parasitic on humans and other mammals and having mouthparts adapted for sucking, as Pediculus humanus (body louse or head louse) and Phthirius pubis (crab louse or pubic louse)