Blocking
[blɒkɪŋ] or ['blɑkɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements.
Checked by Blanchard--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Block
(n.) The act of obstructing, supporting, shaping, or stamping with a block or blocks.
(n.) Blocks used to support (a building, etc.) temporarily.
Editor: Orville
Examples
- Desires for something different, aversion to the given state of things caused by the blocking of successful activity, stimulates the imagination. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- So that you will make haste about it, interrupted I, observing that we were blocking up the road. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
Inputed by Lennon