Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of occlude.
- adj. closed or obstructed
- adj. meteorology (of air) forced upwards by colder, denser air
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (of a substance) taken into and retained in another substance
- adj. closed off
Examples
“However, what has been occluded from the discussion is how the massive investments and capital flows into Bangalore have also contributed to the rise of a powerful and violent mafia.”
“It ties into many of his teachings about our "occluded" state, I'd say.”
“occluded' state, in which the cargo is locked inside the protein.”
“But soon after the well was capped, these voices got occluded by a national media that was quick to give BP an assist and declare that the oil had miraculously vanished.”
The Huffington Post: Bob Dudley, BP CEO, Blames Media For Creating "Climate Of Fear" In Gulf
“This is quite different from, say, an operation that is much more dangerous -- but easily justified by the obviously broken limb, plugged up gall bladder or occluded arteries.”
The Huffington Post: David Katz, M.D.: What to Do About Flu? Get Vaccinated
“A cataract had occluded one of his eyes, turning it from brown to a milky color.”
“His claim was, however, greeted with great scepticism, and the crystals were suggested to be inorganic salts with the enzyme adsorbed or occluded.”
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry
“Liese's true feelings remain occluded: human instinct tangles with animalistic SS guard training.”
“Their first releases, Warsaw and Berlin, saw them embark on a turbulent psychic InterRail tour of central Europe, all rumbling bass and occluded vocals, knowing – like the directors of great suspense films – that what is suggested by the imagination is sometimes more horrifying than what is shown.”
“The problem is that the contrast between Auden's self-acceptance and Britten's "occluded sexuality" in Auden's phrase is the emotional engine that drives "The Habit of Art," and Mr. Bennett has not made it dramatically compelling.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘occluded’.
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Consider the Lobster
By David Foster Wallace
percussive, discursive, lugubrious, docent, assiduously, berm, wag, bonmot, imbroglio, telegraph, fissile, rube and 220 more...
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Hitch Words
Words from the lexicon of Christopher Hitchens
propinquity, fratricide, factitious, vitiate, sectarianism, ostensible, atavistic, sephardic, doyen, palpable, encephalitic, fastidious and 188 more...
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Rabindranath Not Included
i can't never forget thiccyn's!
bubaline, dezinkhornifistib..., hirundine, bee veil, cuckoo spit, resistentialism, hobthrush, burniebee, hookem-snivey, fattiehead, mompyns, mons and 142 more...
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Learned words
Words which are highly likely to be found in the work of learned writers.
ailurophile, labyrinthine, lagniappe, colleague, anechoic, reglets, fluctuations, scalar, implicit, constitute, mortification, ambassadors and 629 more...
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Oblivion
By David Foster Wallace
ossify, reverie, hypergeometric, emetic, mien, cruciform, accreted, perpend, rheostat, predilections, coccyx, hirsute and 178 more...
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words to know
proselytising, proprioception, qualia, indelibly, eristic, mellifluous, perspicacious, concilience, inure, tendentiousness, topos, parochial and 118 more...
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MS GRE
churlish, feign, dissembler, martinet, cosmopolitan, polyglot, aplomb, hack, whit, berate, ebullient, morose and 173 more...
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First Thought
merciless, enamoured, occluded, transposed, abysmal, palpitations, secluded, agony, transverse, itchings, detained, lament and 9 more...
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legacy of ashes
epochal, totalitarian, global, eggheads, ivy league eggheads, second-story men, christian soldiers, titular, caudillos, comity, bifurcating, inchoate and 68 more...
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Vocabulary Unit 11
Second Semester; Anderson
perusing, extant, cozening, acolytes, fledgling, exculpated, junta, demurred, pilioried, propitiated, xenophobe, inveigling and 3 more...
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