单词 | obstructed |
释义 | obstructedadj. 1. Stopped up, blocked; hindered, impeded. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > [adjective] > closed or shut > closed or blocked up > obstructed gorged?a1513 obstructed1611 embarrassed1698 choked1699 occluded1802 blocked1856 obturated1876 the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > [adjective] > hindered interrupt1412 letteda1425 hindered1644 impedite1662 embarrassed1677 obstructed1749 entrammelled1822 tucked up1888 snagged1977 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Oppilé, obstructed, stopped, shut vp. 1655 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa II. i. vii. 247 Hanniball too at the head of them..was in a great apprehension, whether martching such an obstructed way, his Battalions might not be disorder'd. a1658 J. Cleveland Clievelandi Vindiciæ (1677) 72 As an obstructed Fountain's head Cuts the Intail off from the Streams And Brooks are disinherited. 1712 R. Blackmore Creation vi. 301 Those Channels turgid with th' obstructed Tide Stretch their small Holes, and make their Meshes wide. 1749 S. Johnson Irene iii. iii. 36 If e'er thy Youth has..felt th' impatience of obstructed Love. 1777 Ann. Reg. 1776 115 Snow-drowned fields, obstructed roads. 1857 F. W. Faber Sir Lancelot (ed. 2) ix. 287 There was as if a breaking down of bars, A swift disparking of obstructed hopes. 1876 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. (ed. 2) I. xv. 608 The symptoms of an obstructed hernia are not very definite. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 541/2 The attempt..to connect Aleppo with the sea by steamer through the nearest point on the Euphrates..failed owing to the obstructed state of the stream. 1952 M. Mackenzie Contrast Psychol. p. iii The Freudian believes that the unconscious conflict..springs from frustrated ‘sexuality’; the Adlerian from an obstructed ‘life style’. 1965 Jrnl. Indian Med. Assoc. 16 45 (title) Obstructed labour from intrauterine retention of urine in a foetus. 1975 J. McCourt Mawrdew Czgowchwz iv. 104 A handful of the very most serious persons in the opera house sat at score desks set back behind the Dress Circle rows in almost totally obstructed viewing positions. 1998 N.Y. Mag. 4 May 37/1 A bigger, less obstructed, more modern floor would underscore the NYSE's pre-eminent position in the world's economy. 2. Medicine. Having an obstruction of a body passage, esp. of the gastrointestinal, urinary, biliary, or respiratory tract. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > [adjective] > obstruction oppilate?a1425 impedite1544 oppilated1577 obstructive1583 stuffed1584 stopped-up?1611 oppilating1620 obstructed1662 congestive1846 infarcted1889 1662 R. Mathews Unlearned Alchymist (new ed.) 94 One Maid..being obstructed about five or six years, insomuch as she grew very diseased. 1976 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 131 36 Obstructed patients were slightly older and had slightly more advanced tumors than the total group. 1985 Jrnl. Urol. 133 870 The mean plasma creatinine concentration remained normal in the obstructed group. 1992 Gut 33 1412/1 Surgical treatment for bile duct stones is now restricted to those patients who are not obstructed and require a cholecystectomy. 2001 Canad. Jrnl. Gastroenterol. 15 57 Patients with surgically resected colorectal cancer should have a clearing colonoscopy preoperatively or within two to three months of surgery in obstructed patients. Derivatives obˈstructedly adv. with or in the face of obstruction. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > [adverb] > with obstruction uneasy1596 obstructedly1656 1656 Duchess of Newcastle Natures Pictures xi. Epistle Others in one discourse speak..weakly or obstructedly. 1886 H. James Princess Casamassima II. xxi. 70 The good they were striving for, blindly, obstructedly, in a kind of eternal dirty intellectual fog. c1990 J. Dickey Eagle's Mile in Whole Motion (1992) 443 I took my stand where they were called By absent law to stop, obstructedly raging. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1611 |
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