Crossword-Solution: OCCLUDE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Occlude | v. t. | To shut up; to close. |
| Occlude | v. t. | To take in and retain; to absorb; -- said especially with respect to gases; as iron, platinum, and palladium occlude large volumes of hydrogen. |
We have 22 clues for the answer “OCCLUDE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Obscure or obstruct | 1 answer |
| to come into contact with a tooth in the opposite jaw | 1 answer |
| Stop, obstruct | 1 answer |
| Shut in or out. | 1 answer |
| Impede or jam | 1 answer |
| Form a certain front, in meteorology | 1 answer |
| Close up, obstruct | 1 answer |
| Close up an office or passage | 1 answer |
| Close up Oscar sees audience's dirty | 1 answer |
| Block (a passage). | 1 answer |
| BLOCK off | 4 answers |
| make all tight | 5 answers |
| Stop (up) | 10 answers |
| Block up | 10 answers |
| BLOCK PASSAGE THROUGH | 11 answers |
| Shut out | 19 answers |
| Shut | 22 answers |
| Obstruct | 71 answers |
| Block | 84 answers |
| Jam | 85 answers |
| Stop | 111 answers |
| Close | 124 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with OCCLUDE (5)
These colloid substances occlude the minute excretory ducts in liver, spleen, kidneys and other organs, interfering with their normal functions and causing the retention of morbid matter in the system.
The membrane may be the cause of death when it is so extensively formed as to occlude the air passages, but the prominent symptoms of the disease, the fever, the weakness of the heart and the great prostration are due not to the presence of the membrane, but to the action of toxic substances which are formed by the bacteria growing in the superficial lesions and absorbed.
Faulty position of the patient, especially a low position of the head, with faulty direction of the esophagoscope may cause the tube mouth to press the membranous tracheo-esophageal wall into the trachea, so as temporarily to occlude the tracheal lumen, creating a very dangerous situation in a patient under general anesthesia.
The shape of the intubation tube has been arrived at after long clinical study and trials, and cannot be altered without risk of falling into errors that have been made and eliminated in the development of this shape.] [309] CHAPTER XXXIX--DECANNULATION AFTER CURE OF LARYNGEAL STENOSIS In order to train the patient to breathe again through the larynx it is necessary to occlude the cannula.
The watchmen in buildings nearby had been warned off for the time being so that their footsteps wouldn't occlude any results.
Quotes with OCCLUDE (1)
We are social beings who make communities with an urgency, and it is a stern charge to make us take refuge in the lonely world of oneself. ... Racism attempts to occlude our cosmopolitanism (of the songs in and out of our bones), and it often appropriates our mild forms of xenophobia into its own virulent project. Difference among peoples is something that we negotiate in our everyday interactions, asking questions and being better informed of our mutual realities. To transfo…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, NYT, WSJ.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1953–2015).