Obstructs
[əb'strʌkts]
Examples
- Exercise should precede meals, not immediately follow them; the first promotes, the latter, unless moderate, obstructs digestion. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The statute of apprenticeship obstructs the free circulation of labour from one employment to another, even in the same place. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The difficulty of obtaining settlements obstructs even that of common labour. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It obstructs the communication of heat from the furnace to the water, and the metal is thus liable to become red-hot. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- But Muscle Shoals is not navigable, and below them again is another shoal which also obstructs navigation. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Whatever either promotes or obstructs the one, necessarily promotes or obstructs the other. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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