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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Occluding or tending to occlude.
  • noun An oral or nasal stop.

from The Century Dictionary.

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

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective That tends to occlude.
  • noun phonetics A plosive.

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

  • adjective tending to occlude
  • noun a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it

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