obstruct
verb (used with object)
to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass.
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He continued to stand obstructingly in the middle of his log doorstep, one hand on the knob of the half closed door behind him, his eyes fixed very curiously on Johnny's flushed disorder.
From The Innocent Adventuress by Mary Hastings Bradley