Usually means: Impediment that blocks or hinders.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. obstruction: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. obstruction: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. obstruction: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. obstruction: Collins English Dictionary
  5. obstruction: Vocabulary.com
  6. Obstruction, obstruction: Wordnik
  7. obstruction: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. obstruction: Wiktionary
  9. obstruction: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. obstruction: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. obstruction: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. obstruction: Dictionary.com
  13. obstruction: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. obstruction: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Obstruction (baseball), Obstruction: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Obstruction: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. obstruction: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. obstruction: Rhymezone
  19. obstruction, obstruction (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. obstruction: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. obstruction: Free Dictionary
  22. obstruction: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. obstruction: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. obstruction: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. obstruction: Encyclopedia

Medicine (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Obstruction: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Digestive Diseases Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Obstruction: MedFriendly Glossary
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  8. obstruction: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  9. obstruction: Medical dictionary
  10. Obstruction: Drug Medical Dictionary
  11. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Obstruction: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Sports (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sports Terms (No longer online)
  2. Squash Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  4. obstruction: Golfer's Dictionary
  5. Obstruction: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act of obstructing, or state of being obstructed.
noun:  Something which obstructs or impedes, either intentionally or unintentionally
noun:  The condition of having the natural powers obstructed in their usual course; the arrest of the vital functions; death.

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