occlude

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb

To obstruct, cover, or otherwise block (an opening, a portion of an image, etc.).
To absorb, as a gas by a metal.

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occlude occludes occluding occluded

Borrowed from Latin occlūdere, from ob (“before”) and claudere (“to shut”).

disocclude disocclusion occlusal occlusion occlusive postoccluded preoccluded

malocclude nonoccluded occludable occluded front occluder occludin reocclude re-occlude reoccluded unoccluded

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