occlude

Other forms of occlude

past tense

occluded·

present participle

occluding·

third person

occludes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about occlude

What does occlude mean?

occlude means "block passage through".

How many syllables are in occlude?

occlude has 2 syllables: oc-clude. The stress falls on "clude".

What is another word for occlude?

Close synonyms include obstruct, obturate, impede, jam, block. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is occlude a common word?

occlude is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.