Obstruent

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Obstructing or closing natural openings or passages of the body.
  • n. An obstruent medicine or agent.
  • n. Linguistics A sound, such as a stop, fricative, or affricate, that is produced with complete blockage or at least partial constriction of the airflow through the nose or mouth.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. a consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway, causing turbulence; the generic term of plosive, fricative and affricate
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Causing obstruction; blocking up; hindering.
  • n. Anything that obstructs or closes a passage; esp., that which obstructs natural passages in the body.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Obstructive; impeding.
  • n. Anything that obstructs; especially, anything that blocks up the natural passages of the body.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a consonant that is produced with a partial or complete blockage of the airflow from the lungs through the nose or mouth
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    consonant   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    hindering   
     
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