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block passage through

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Definitions

  1. v. block passage through
  2. To stop or close, as an opening; specif., (Ordnance), to stop (a gun breech) so as to prevent the escape of gas in firing.
  3. To stop or close, as an opening; specif., (Ordnance),
  4. v block passage through