Synonyms for Obstructing:

• adj.

  •hindering (adjective)
  • Delaying,
  • Restraining,
  • constraining,
  • Handicapping,
  • Deterring,
  • bottleneck,
  • Clogging,
  • restricting,
  • hindering,
  • Entrapping,
  • frustrating,
  • congesting,
  • Cramping,
  • baffling,
  • burdensome,
  • Complicating,
  • Tangling,
  • Damming,
  • in the way,
  • thwarting,
  • impeding,
  • Snarling,
  • Crimping,
  • Resisting,
  • Snagging,
  • Obstruent,
  • blocking,
  • inhibiting,
  • choking,
  • Fouling,
  • Encumbering,
  • crippling,
  • Entangling,
  • constipating,
  • Detaining.

• v.

  •hindering (verb)
  • dragging,
  • Interrupting,
  • Hamstringing,
  • barring,
  • stopping,
  • braking,
  • fettering,
  • catching,
  • Impairing,
  • curbing,
  • jamming,
  • Miring,
  • Plugging,
  • Burdening,
  • Paralyzing,
  • Staying,
  • Bunging,
  • bottlenecking.

• Other synonyms:

  •adj.
  • Hampering.
  •n.
  • interference.
  •Other relevant words:
  • abash,
  • abscission,
  • across,
  • active,
  • adhere,
  • adverse,
  • affray,
  • agree,
  • ambitious,
  • amex,
  • apprehend,
  • apprehension,
  • ascendance,
  • ascendancy,
  • ascendence,
  • ascendency,
  • ascertain,
  • asphyxiate,
  • assay,
  • assure,
  • at odds,
  • attach,
  • auction block,
  • awkward,
  • bachelor of arts in nursing,
  • back,
  • back up,
  • backpacking,
  • backwardness,
  • badger,
  • baleful,
  • balky,
  • bandage,
  • banish,
  • banishment,
  • bank check,
  • barricade,
  • barroom,
  • bedevil,
  • befuddle,
  • befuddlement,
  • beleaguer,
  • bemusement,
  • beset,
  • bewilderment,
  • blackball,
  • blank out,
  • block off,
  • block up,
  • blockade,
  • blur,
  • bond,
  • bother,
  • bound,
  • bowl over,
  • boxing,
  • break,
  • break off,
  • bridle,
  • broken,
  • browning automatic rifle,
  • buck,
  • budge,
  • bug,
  • busy,
  • busybodied,
  • buy the farm,
  • cake,
  • campaign,
  • cark,
  • carrefour,
  • cast out,
  • catch,
  • cease,
  • cease and desist order,
  • censor,
  • chafe,
  • charge,
  • charge up,
  • chasteness,
  • check into,
  • check mark,
  • check off,
  • check out,
  • check over,
  • check up on,
  • check-out procedure,
  • checker,
  • checkout,
  • cheque,
  • chequer,
  • chevvy,
  • chevy,
  • chink,
  • chip,
  • chit,
  • chivvy,
  • chivy,
  • choke coil,
  • choke off,
  • choke up,
  • choking coil,
  • city block,
  • clamp down,
  • clog,
  • clog up,
  • close,
  • close up,
  • closedown,
  • closure,
  • collar,
  • combat,
  • combat-ready,
  • command,
  • commotion,
  • commove,
  • communicable,
  • completion,
  • conceal,
  • conclusion,
  • condition,
  • confining,
  • confirmation,
  • confound,
  • confused,
  • congest,
  • conk,
  • constipate,
  • constraint,
  • constriction,
  • constrictive,
  • contagious,
  • contain,
  • contractable,
  • contracting,
  • contradictory,
  • control condition,
  • controller,
  • cop,
  • correspond,
  • cover,
  • covering,
  • covert,
  • crippled,
  • croak,
  • cross,
  • crossbreeding,
  • crossover,
  • crossroad,
  • crosswalk,
  • crossway,
  • crossways,
  • crusade,
  • cube,
  • culmination,
  • cumber,
  • curb bit,
  • curtail,
  • curtailment,
  • cut,
  • cut back,
  • cutting,
  • cylinder block,
  • death,
  • debar,
  • decease,
  • deceleration,
  • defeat,
  • deflect,
  • defunctness,
  • derangement,
  • destruction,
  • detain,
  • detection,
  • determine,
  • devastating,
  • diaphragm,
  • die,
  • difficultness,
  • disabling,
  • disallow,
  • discipline,
  • discombobulate,
  • discomfit,
  • discompose,
  • discontinuance,
  • discontinue,
  • disgustful,
  • disgusting,
  • dislocation,
  • disorder,
  • disordered,
  • disquiet,
  • disquieted,
  • distasteful,
  • distressed,
  • distressful,
  • distressing,
  • disturbed,
  • dodging,
  • dominance,
  • dour,
  • draw a blank,
  • dressing,
  • duty tour,
  • electric resistance,
  • electrical resistance,
  • electronic jamming,
  • elusive,
  • enclose,
  • encumber,
  • encumbrance,
  • end point,
  • endpoint,
  • enforce,
  • engine block,
  • enjoinment,
  • enlistment,
  • ensure,
  • espial,
  • evacuation,
  • excite,
  • exclude,
  • excreting,
  • excretion,
  • exit,
  • expectancy,
  • expectation,
  • experimental extinction,
  • expiration,
  • expire,
  • expiry,
  • extenuation,
  • extermination,
  • fight,
  • fill,
  • fillet,
  • final result,
  • find out,
  • finish,
  • fit,
  • flurry,
  • flutter,
  • folie,
  • foment,
  • forbear,
  • forbidden,
  • force,
  • ford,
  • foreclose,
  • forestall,
  • forget,
  • foul,
  • fox,
  • fray,
  • freeze,
  • fret,
  • frustrative,
  • fuddle,
  • full point,
  • full stop,
  • gag,
  • game,
  • gap,
  • get,
  • get at,
  • get to,
  • gibe,
  • gimp,
  • ginmill,
  • give up,
  • go,
  • go over,
  • goal,
  • gravel,
  • grim,
  • hale,
  • hamper,
  • handicap,
  • harass,
  • harry,
  • hassle,
  • hind,
  • hitchhike,
  • hobble,
  • hold,
  • hold fast,
  • hold in,
  • hold off,
  • hold on,
  • hold up,
  • holdup,
  • hoo-ha,
  • hoo-hah,
  • hybridisation,
  • hybridization,
  • hybridizing,
  • immobilisation,
  • immobilise,
  • immobilization,
  • immobilize,
  • immunity,
  • impedimenta,
  • impose,
  • incapacitating,
  • incumbrance,
  • inhibitory,
  • insure,
  • interbreeding,
  • intercept,
  • intercession,
  • interdict,
  • interjection,
  • interpellation,
  • interpolation,
  • interrupt,
  • intersection,
  • intriguing,
  • jam,
  • jerk,
  • jib,
  • jibe,
  • jumble,
  • keep,
  • keep back,
  • keep in line,
  • kerb,
  • kerfuffle,
  • kibosh,
  • kick the bucket,
  • knock over,
  • knotty,
  • lag,
  • lame,
  • last,
  • lay off,
  • learn,
  • legal community,
  • legal profession,
  • limit,
  • limiting,
  • limp,
  • liquidation,
  • loathly,
  • loathsome,
  • lockup,
  • look into,
  • lug,
  • manipulate,
  • mark,
  • mark off,
  • masking,
  • master,
  • mastery,
  • match,
  • measure,
  • meddlesome,
  • menacing,
  • mental block,
  • mental disorder,
  • mental disturbance,
  • mental retardation,
  • minacious,
  • minatory,
  • miscarriage,
  • moderate,
  • moderation,
  • mop up,
  • mortifying,
  • musical interval,
  • mystification,
  • nab,
  • nail,
  • nark,
  • nettle,
  • nix,
  • noise,
  • obfuscation,
  • obligate,
  • oblige,
  • obscure,
  • obstinate,
  • obstructer,
  • obstructor,
  • obturate,
  • occlude,
  • occlusion,
  • oddment,
  • officious,
  • ominous,
  • onerous,
  • operate,
  • opponent,
  • opposite,
  • opposition,
  • oppress,
  • ostracise,
  • ostracize,
  • out,
  • outcome,
  • overthrow,
  • overturn,
  • overturned,
  • packing material,
  • palliation,
  • parry,
  • pass,
  • pass away,
  • pause,
  • perish,
  • perturbation,
  • perturbing,
  • perverse,
  • pick,
  • pile,
  • pinch,
  • plague,
  • plosive,
  • plosive consonant,
  • plosive speech sound,
  • point,
  • pop off,
  • postponement,
  • preclude,
  • prediction,
  • press,
  • pressure,
  • prevent,
  • preventative,
  • preventive,
  • prevision,
  • privacy,
  • privateness,
  • problematic,
  • problematical,
  • prohibited,
  • prohibition era,
  • proscribe,
  • proscribed,
  • provoke,
  • psychological disorder,
  • pulley,
  • pulley-block,
  • push,
  • puzzlement,
  • quit,
  • rafter,
  • rag,
  • raise up,
  • reasoning by elimination,
  • relegate,
  • remainder,
  • remnant,
  • repellant,
  • repellent,
  • resist,
  • resistivity,
  • resistor,
  • restrict,
  • result,
  • resultant,
  • retain,
  • retardant,
  • retardent,
  • reverse,
  • revolting,
  • riddance,
  • rile,
  • roadblock,
  • rouse,
  • rub,
  • ruffle,
  • saloon,
  • scrag,
  • scrap,
  • screen,
  • secrecy,
  • security review,
  • see,
  • see to it,
  • self-contradictory,
  • sensational,
  • separation,
  • shake,
  • shift,
  • showing,
  • shun,
  • shunning,
  • shutdown,
  • shutting,
  • simpleness,
  • simplicity,
  • sinister,
  • skanky,
  • slowdown,
  • slowness,
  • snag,
  • snuff it,
  • spile,
  • spotting,
  • spying,
  • squeeze,
  • squelch,
  • squelcher,
  • stanch,
  • staunch,
  • stay,
  • stem,
  • stick,
  • stick to,
  • sticky,
  • stiffen,
  • stifle,
  • stilt,
  • stir,
  • stir up,
  • stop consonant,
  • stopover,
  • stoppage,
  • strangle,
  • strangulation,
  • streak,
  • stripe,
  • stuff,
  • stunning,
  • stymie,
  • stymy,
  • subnormality,
  • substantiation,
  • suffocate,
  • suffocating,
  • suffocative,
  • sulfurous,
  • sulphurous,
  • sultry,
  • suspension,
  • swage,
  • tab,
  • tabu,
  • takedown,
  • taking into custody,
  • tally,
  • tampering,
  • taproom,
  • taxing,
  • tease,
  • term of enlistment,
  • terminal,
  • terminate,
  • terminus,
  • thought-provoking,
  • threatening,
  • throttle,
  • throttling,
  • throw,
  • throw out of kilter,
  • thumb,
  • tick,
  • tick off,
  • tie,
  • tie down,
  • tighten,
  • tighten up,
  • time interval,
  • time lag,
  • tip over,
  • to-do,
  • touch,
  • tough,
  • tour,
  • tour of duty,
  • train,
  • trammel,
  • transmissible,
  • transmittable,
  • treatment,
  • trouble,
  • troubling,
  • truss,
  • turn back,
  • turn over,
  • turning away,
  • turnover,
  • unbalance,
  • underground,
  • unenviable,
  • unhinge,
  • untune,
  • upturned,
  • vault,
  • verboten,
  • verification,
  • verify,
  • veto,
  • vex,
  • viewing,
  • voiding,
  • wadding,
  • wait,
  • watch,
  • wayward,
  • weft,
  • wicked,
  • windup,
  • withholding tax,
  • woof,
  • worried,
  • worrisome,
  • worrying,
  • yucky,
  • layover,
  • chokepoint,
  • hurly burly,
  • pick up,
  • cash in one's chips,
  • give-up the ghost,
  • turn on,
  • mix up,
  • put off,
  • tie up,
  • shake up,
  • stop over,
  • tump over,
  • gimpy,
  • crack,
  • period,
  • retard,
  • devil,
  • hang-up,
  • drop dead,
  • pulley block,
  • confine to,
  • in someone's way.

Paraphrases for Obstructing:

• Equivalence

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    impeding, hindering, Hampering, blocking, Clogging.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    impedes, hinders, hampers.

• Independent

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    stopping, discouraging, disturbing, Counteracting, curbing, restricting, Disrupting, Curtailing, Deterring, Prohibiting, impair, Impairing, Detracting, Objecting, countering, Precluding, constraining, Preventing, thwarting, Distorting, sabotaging, affecting, Jeopardizing, inhibiting, Destroying, stifling, interfering, Resisting, undermining, aggravating, Restraining, interference, Violating, Derailing, causing, averting, Interrupting, Depriving, Impacting, disabling, Harming, dampening, slowing, tampering, halting, weakening, Denying, Delaying, faltering, freezing, withholding, arresting, waiting, Stemming, compromising, Prejudicing, blockading, Suspending, limiting, Defying, challenging, stalling, Besetting, barring, stonewalling, defending, lock, locking, banning, bordering, damaging, jamming, Placing, facing, putting, Plaguing, Plugging, Against, dealing.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    disrupts, impairs, prevents, inhibits, retards.

Obstructing Sentence Examples:

• No, no, said one of them, obstructing the way; what business have you in?

• In a few moments the prisoner was brought in, and there was a general craning of necks to see him, a number of men in Darrell's vicinity standing and thus obstructing his view.