Synonyms of occluded

occluded

verb

past tense of occlude

as in obstructed

to prevent passage through by filling with something

a blood clot had occluded a major artery in his body

Synonyms & Similar Words

• obstructed
• blocked
• jammed
• filled
• congested
• clogged
• flooded
• stuffed
• clotted
• choked
• stopped (up)
• gummed (up)
• plugged (up)
• dammed
• packed
• stoppered
• corked
• overwhelmed
• silted
• bunged
• inundated
• furred
• gridlocked
• glutted
• stoppled
• swamped
• spiled

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• opened (up)
• cleared
• freed
• unplugged
• excavated
• unblocked
• unclogged
• emptied
• hollowed (out)
• unstopped
• scooped (out)
• lightened

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of occluded

The administration of antibiotics would trigger a second pathogen that had been occluded inside the first. — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 25 July 2026

Instead, the missing silver may have been right there, in the sun all along, simply occluded from astronomers' view by tricks of physics. — Rahul Rao, Space.com, 23 July 2026

There’s so much that has been occluded by the broad-brush depiction of the eighties as the awful age of Reagan, yuppies, shoulder pads, mullets, and synth-drums. — Literary Hub, 1 June 2026

Unlike supermassive black holes, the critics argued, LRDs appeared occluded by much denser clouds of gas, potentially mandating a more direct method for accurately measuring their mass. — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 27 May 2026