'Blocked' definitions:
Definition of 'blocked'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Closed to traffic; "the repaving results in many blocked streets" [syn: blocked, out of use(p)]
adjective
Completely obstructed or closed off; "the storm was responsible for many blocked roads and bridges"; "the drain was plugged" [syn: blocked, plugged]
Definition of 'Blocked'
From: GCIDE
- Block \Block\ (bl[o^]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blocked (bl[o^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Blocking.] [Cf. F. bloquer, fr. bloc block. See Block, n.]
- 1. To obstruct so as to prevent passage or progress; to prevent passage from, through, or into, by obstructing the way; -- used both of persons and things; -- often followed by up; as, to block up a road or harbor; to block an entrance. [1913 Webster]
- With moles . . . would block the port. --Rowe. [1913 Webster]
- A city . . . besieged and blocked about. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To secure or support by means of blocks; to secure, as two boards at their angles of intersection, by pieces of wood glued to each. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To shape on, or stamp with, a block; as, to block a hat. [1913 Webster]
- 4. to cause (any activity) to halt by creating an obstruction; as, to block a nerve impulse; to block a biochemical reaction with a drug. [PJC]
- To block out, to begin to reduce to shape; to mark out roughly; to lay out; to outline; as, to block out a plan. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'blocked'
From: GCIDE
- blocked \blocked\ adj.
- 1. closed to traffic. Traffic was blocked by an overturned tractor-trailor
- Syn: out of use(predicate). [WordNet 1.5]
- 2. at a complete standstill because of opposition of two unrelenting forces or factions.
- Syn: deadlocked, stalemated. [WordNet 1.5]
- 3. unusable because of some obstruction. [WordNet 1.5]
Synonyms of 'blocked'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absentminded,
- amnestic,
- arrested,
- back,
- backward,
- behindhand,
- belated,
- bound,
- choked,
- choked up,
- clogged,
- clogged up,
- congested,
- constipated,
- converted,
- costive,
- delayed,
- delayed-action,
- detained,
- forgetful,
- forgetting,
- foul,
- fouled,
- full,
- heedless,
- held up,
- hung up,
- in a bind,
- in abeyance,
- inclined to forget,
- infarcted,
- jammed,
- late,
- latish,
- Lethean,
- moratory,
- never on time,
- oblivious,
- obstipated,
- obstructed,
- overdue,
- packed,
- plugged,
- plugged up,
- repressed,
- retarded,
- slow,
- stopped,
- stopped up,
- stuffed,
- stuffed up,
- suppressed,
- tardy,
- unmindful,
- unpunctual,
- unready,
- untimely
Words containing 'Blocked'
- Block,
- Blocking,
- To block out,
- block off,
- block out,
- block up,
- A block of shares,
- Back blocks,
- Belgian block,
- Block book,
- Block chain,
- Block printing,
- Block signal,
- Block system,
- Block tin,
- Blocking course,
- Brake block,
- Cat block,
- Cautionary block,
- Cheeks of a block,
- Chopping block,
- Dead block,
- Erratic blocks,
- Fiddle block,
- Fly block,
- Gin block,
- Gold blocking,
- Guide block,
- Hat block,
- Hawse block,
- Horn block,
- Jack block,
- Jewel block,
- Monkey block,
- Mooring block,
- Motion block,
- Pillow block,
- Plumber block,
- Pulley block,
- Quarter block,
- Quartering block,
- Rack block,
- Running block,
- Salt block,
- Shoe block,
- Shoulder block,
- Sister Block,
- Snatch block,
- Span blocks,
- Stereotype block,
- Strike block,
- Swage block,
- Yule block,
- absolute blocking,
- atrioventricular block,
- auction block,
- bad block,
- bee blocks,
- blind blocking,
- block anaesthesia,
- block and tackle,
- block anesthesia,
- block bond,
- block capital,
- block diagram,
- block grant,
- block letter,
- block of metal,
- block plane,
- block vote,
- blocking agent,
- breeze block,
- building block,
- bullock block,
- butcher block,
- caudal block,
- cinder block,
- city block,
- clinker block,
- cylinder block,
- damper block,
- engine block,
- heart block,
- line block,
- measuring block,
- mental block,
- office block,
- paracervical block,
- permissive blocking,
- pillar block,
- psychological block,
- pudendal block,
- scribbling block,
- scribing block,
- sketch block,
- square block,
- starting block,
- stumbling block,
- tower block,
- trap block,
- wood block,
- writer's block,
- A chip off the old block,
- Fish-block,
- Pillar-block,
- Stumbling-block,
- Top-block,
- chip off the old block,
- chock-a-block,
- nerve block anaesthesia,
- nerve block anesthesia,
- neuromuscular blocking agent,
- pulley-block,
- saddle block anaesthesia,
- saddle block anesthesia,
- Clew-line block,
- Thick-and-thin block,
- beta-blocking agent,
- alpha-adrenergic blocking agent,
- beta-adrenergic blocking agent