Synonyms of occluding

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• obstructing
• blocking
• jamming
• filling
• choking
• clogging
• congesting
• flooding
• clotting
• stopping (up)
• damming
• plugging (up)
• gumming (up)
• packing
• stuffing
• corking
• stoppering
• silting
• bunging
• inundating
• gridlocking
• swamping
• furring
• overwhelming
• spiling
• glutting
• stoppling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• freeing
• clearing
• opening (up)
• unblocking
• unplugging
• excavating
• unclogging
• emptying
• unstopping
• scooping (out)
• hollowing (out)
• lightening

Example Sentences

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