1-Stop Dictionary Reference

Occlusive

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Occluding or tending to occlude.

n. Linguistics An oral or nasal stop.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. That tends to occlude.

n. A plosive.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Closing; serving to close: as, an occlusive dressing for a wound.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. tending to occlude

n. a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it

Word Usage

"A comedone is a blackhead or whitehead plugging up a pore, and you certainly don’t want anything that can contribute to those namely, occlusive ingredients such as mineral oil, lanolin, or petrolatum."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

obstruent

Hyponym

glottal catch glottal stop glottal plosive click labial stop

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