Definitions for occlude

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occlude oc·clude

Spelling: [uh-klood]

IPA: /əˈklud/

Occlude is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 126 anagrams from letters in occlude (ccdelou).

Definitions for occlude

verb (used with object)

1. to close, shut, or stop up (a passage, opening, etc.).
2. to shut in, out, or off.
3. Physical Chemistry. (of certain metals and other solids) to incorporate (gases and other foreign substances), as by absorption or adsorption.

verb (used without object)

1. Dentistry. to shut or close, with the cusps of the opposing teeth of the upper and lower jaws fitting together.
2. Meteorology. to form an occluded front.

Origin of occlude

1590-1600; Latin occlūdere to shut up, close up, equivalent to oc- oc- + -clūdere, combining form of claudere to close

Examples for occlude

At the same time it may so compress the main tube as to occlude its calibre and prevent access of food to the stomach.

In finely divided form it has the ability to absorb or occlude gases, especially oxygen and hydrogen.

When the nitration is completed, screw up the clamps and so occlude the two pieces of pressure tubing.

The presence of old splits is often indicated by a ridge of callous, the result of the cambium's effort to occlude the wound.

In some instances pseudo-membrane is so massed in plugs as to occlude the cavity of the tube, as with obturators.