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blocked

/ blɒkt /

adjective

All the roads into Iraqi Kurdistan and toward Baghdad are closed and now the road toward Syria is also blocked.

The government has blocked every opportunity to challenge this case on its merits.

I normally ignore blocked numbers, but was expecting a number of calls that day so I excused myself and answered anyway.

They made one last charge for the airport, and when the riot police blocked them again a melee ensued.

But because he is still a practicing pastor, his name was instead blocked from her publicized affidavit.

The south tunnel in New Street was blocked April 18, 1877, by a locomotive turning over.

John Silence, however, was before us both, and his figure slipped past and blocked the doorway of the tent.

When about half way to Monticello three rough-looking men blocked the road, demanding his name and the reason of his haste.

The channel between Bernier and Dorre is about a mile and a half wide, but is so blocked up by rocks as to be impassable.

On the right hand is seen a passage blocked up with stones, as was frequently done, to prevent accident.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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