occluding

verb

present participle of occlude
as in obstructing
to prevent passage through by filling with something a blood clot had occluded a major artery in his body

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Recent Examples of occluding From Earth’s vantage point—right along the faraway magnetar’s equator—the wobbling disk acted like a film projector’s shutter, periodically occluding our view of the dead star supercharging SN 2024afav. — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 11 Mar. 2026 For example, if a ball rolled behind some occluding object and temporarily disappeared from view, the model generated an error when the ball didn’t reappear from behind the object in future frames. — Anil Ananthaswamy, Wired News, 7 Dec. 2025 In the immediate aftermath of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s murder, one of the most vexing things occluding the facts of what happened was a general illiteracy regarding the online culture that had engulfed the alleged killer — its memes and codes and ideologies. — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for occluding
  1. obstructing
  2. blocking
Verb
  • Marcos Moreno, 61, has been charged with one count each of failure to report a crash resulting in death, leaving the scene of a crash resulting in death, and obstructing justice.
    — Todd Feurer, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • That was followed by Foster City police stating Thursday that a person has been booked on suspicion of causing a fire that injured firefighters, and obstructing police and fire investigators probing the blaze.
    — Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of obstructing
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  • The trailer then came to a rest, blocking the eastbound lanes of C-470.
    — Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026
  • This happens when the moon passes in front of the sun, completely blocking it from our perspective here on Earth.
    — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of blocking

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“Occluding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/occluding. Accessed 14 Aug. 2026.

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