noun
- Any structure that makes progress difficult.
- synonyms: obstructor, obstructer, impediment, impedimenta
- The physical condition of blocking or filling a passage with an obstruction.
- synonyms: blockage
- Something immaterial that stands in the way and must be circumvented or surmounted.
- usage: "lack of imagination is an obstacle to one's advancement"; "the poverty of a district is an obstacle to good education"; "the filibuster was a major obstruction to the success of their plan"
- synonyms: obstacle
- The act of obstructing.
- usage: "obstruction of justice"
- Getting in someone's way. .
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