Obstruo, óbstruis, obstruxi, obstructum, obstruere. Cicero. To shut: to stop vp: to make vp a building to hide an others prospect.Obstruere portas. Cæs. To stoppe vp the gates.Vndas obstruit molibus. Lucan. He stoppeth the water with great piles or dammes.Obstruere luminibus, Vide LVMEN.Obstruere & obthurare.Cic. Obstruere aures. Senec.Fauces obstruere alicui. Lucan. To stoppe ones mouth.Obstruere sensus. Plin.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ob-strŭo (opstr-), xi, ctum, 3, v. a., to build before or against; to build, block, or wall up; to stop up, barricade, renderimpassable (class.; cf. obsaepio, claudo, oppilo). I.Lit.: validum pro diruto obstruentes murum, Liv. 38, 29: frontem castrorum auxiliis, id. 5, 1.—Esp., to build before so as to obstruct the light: obstructae fenestrae, Varr. R. R. 1, 4: FENESTRAS OPSTRVITO, Lex. Puteol. ap. Grut. 207, 2: luminibus alicujus, Cic. Dom. 44: jus luminum obstruendorum redimere, to purchase permission of a neighbor to build so as to obstruct his light, Inscr. Guarin. Comment. in Vet. Monument. 1, p. 64: portas, Caes. B. C. 1, 27: valvas aedis. Nep. Paus. 5: aditus, Cic. Brut. 4, 16: flumina, Caes. B. C. 3, 48: aquarum venas, Plin. 31, 3, 28, 49: saxa,
placed in the way
, Ov. M. 3, 570: cujus aures morbus obstruxit,
has stopped up, made deaf
, Sen. Ben. 3, 17, 2: os obstruere,
to close the mouth, to make silent
, Vulg. Psa. 62, 12; id. Rom. 3, 19.—II.Trop., to stop up, hinder, impede, obstruct: Catonis luminibus obstruxit haec posteriorum quasi exaggerata altius oratio,
was a hinderance to
, Cic. Brut. 17, 66: viri deus obstruit aures,
stops, renders deaf, inexorable
, Verg. A. 4, 440: perfugia improborum,
shuts off
, Cic. Sull. 28, 79: cognitionem difficultatibus,
to impede, obstruct
, id. Ac. 2, 3, 7: mentes, Tac. H. 3, 21.—b.Intr., to be in the way: si officiens signis mons obstruet altus, Cic. Arat. 44.
