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Definition of Block up
1. Verb. Render unsuitable for passage. "Stop the busy road"
Generic synonyms: Block, Close Up, Impede, Jam, Obstruct, Obturate, Occlude
Specialized synonyms: Block Off, Close Off, Shut Off, Close
Related verbs: Block, Obstruct
Derivative terms: Bar, Barricade, Barricade, Blockage, Blocking, Blockade, Stop, Stopper
Definition of Block up
1. Verb. (transitive) to completely block or obstruct. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) to be completely blocked or obstrctued. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Block Up
Literary usage of Block up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"... ii, I place the tar-paper b along the edge where the next block is to be
formed, and I put the plastic composition for such next block up against the ..."
2. The Locomotive Up to Date by Charles McShane (1920)
"If an equalizer on an eight-wheeled engine, block on top of one box and block up
the loose end of the equalizer, when possible, the same as for a broken ..."
3. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government by Jefferson Davis (1881)
"Sinking Vessels to block up Harbors.—Every Proscription of Maritime Law violated
by the United States Government.—Protest.—Addition made to the Law by Great ..."
4. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"It is said in one of the French slips, that they design to land some 1000 men in
Scotland in May, and will block up our fleet and hinder the Dutch from ..."
5. The Science of Railways by Marshall Monroe Kirkman (1913)
"How would you block up for broken trailer tire? Answer 3. ... How would you
proceed to block up for a broken driver spring, spring hanger or equalizer on ..."
6. The Science of Railways by Marshall Monroe Kirkman (1913)
"How would you block up for broken trailer tire? Answer 3. ... How would you
proceed to block up for a broken driver spring, spring hanger or equalizer on ..."
7. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, Governor of Nottingham by Lucy Apsley Hutchinson, Julius Hutchinson, Charles Harding Firth (1885)
"As soon as these strange soldiers were come into Newark, they presently began to
block up and fortify the town, as on the other side, they at Nottingham ..."
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