occlude

To obstruct, cover, or otherwise block (an opening, a portion of an image, etc.).

Verb

  1. To obstruct, cover, or otherwise block (an opening, a portion of an image, etc.).
    • His reflection is occluded by the mist on the mirror. - 2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 301:
  2. To absorb, as a gas by a metal.

Origin

Borrowed from Latin occlūdere, from ob (“before”) and claudere (“to shut”).

Forms

occludes occluding occluded

Related

disocclude disocclusion occlusal occlusion occlusive postoccluded preoccluded

Derived

malocclude nonoccluded occludable occluded front occluder occludin reocclude re-occlude reoccluded unoccluded