Obstruct vs Exclude - What's the difference?
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To block or fill (a passage) with obstacles or an obstacle. See Synonyms at block.
To impede, retard, or interfere with; hinder: obstructed my progress.
To get in the way of so as to hide from sight.
To bar (someone) from entering; to keep out.
To expel; to put out.
(legal, of evidence) To refuse to accept as valid.
(medicine) To eliminate from diagnostic consideration.
Obstruct is a related term of exclude.
As verbs the difference between obstruct and exclude
is that obstruct is to block or fill (a passage) with obstacles or an obstacle see synonyms at block while exclude is to bar (someone) from entering; to keep out.obstruct
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* See alsoexclude
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(exclud)- to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs