All obstruction synonyms

noun obstruction

• blockage — A blockage in a pipe, tube, or tunnel is an object which blocks it, or the state of being blocked.
• interference — an act, fact, or instance of interfering.
• bar — A bar is a place where you can buy and drink alcoholic drinks.
• blocking — the interruption of anode current in a valve because of the application of a high negative voltage to the grid
• check — Check is also a noun.
• checkmate — to thwart or render powerless
• circumvention — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
• gridlock — the stoppage of free vehicular movement in an urban area because key intersections are blocked by traffic.
• hamper — to hold back; hinder; impede: A steady rain hampered the progress of the work.
• hurdle — a portable barrier over which contestants must leap in certain running races, usually a wooden frame with a hinged inner frame that swings down under impact to prevent injury to a runner who does not clear it.
• jam — to press, squeeze, or wedge tightly between bodies or surfaces, so that motion or extrication is made difficult or impossible: The ship was jammed between two rocks.
• lock — a tress, curl, or ringlet of hair.
• mountain — heap of sth
• restraint — a restraining action or influence: freedom from restraint.
• roadblock — an obstruction placed across a road, especially of barricades or police cars, for halting or hindering traffic, as to facilitate the capture of a pursued car or inspection for safety violations.
• snag — a tree or part of a tree held fast in the bottom of a river, lake, etc., and forming an impediment or danger to navigation.
• stop — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
• stoppage — an act or instance of stopping; cessation of activity: the stoppage of all work at the factory.
• trammel — Usually, trammels. a hindrance or impediment to free action; restraint: the trammels of custom.
• trouble — to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
• wall — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
• obstacle — something that obstructs or hinders progress.
• barrier — A barrier is something such as a rule, law, or policy that makes it difficult or impossible for something to happen or be achieved.
• impediment — obstruction; hindrance; obstacle.
• block — A block of flats or offices is a large building containing them.
• hindrance — an impeding, stopping, preventing, or the like.
• blockade — A blockade of a place is an action that is taken to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving it.
• stumbling block — an obstacle or hindrance to progress, belief, or understanding.
• 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.
• hitch — to fasten or tie, especially temporarily, by means of a hook, rope, strap, etc.; tether: Steve hitched the horse to one of the posts.
• difficulty — the fact or condition of being difficult.