different between obstruct vs forslow

English

Etymology

From Latin past participle stem obstruct- (“blocked up”), from verb obstruere, from ob (“against”) + struere (“pile up, build”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?st??kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt

Verb

obstruct (third-person singular simple present obstructs, present participle obstructing, simple past and past participle obstructed)

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1. To block or fill (a passage) with obstacles or an obstacle. See synonyms at block.
3. To impede, retard, or interfere with; hinder.

4. To get in the way of so as to hide from sight.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:hinder

Derived terms

• deobstruct
• obstructed
• obstructedly
• unobstructed
• unobstructedly

Related terms

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• foreslow, fore-slow

Etymology

From Middle English forslowen, forslewen (“to neglect”), from Old English forsl?wian, forsl?wan (“to be slow, unwilling, delay, put off”), equivalent to for- +? slow.

Verb

forslow (third-person singular simple present forslows, present participle forslowing, simple past and past participle forslowed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To be dilatory about; put off; postpone; neglect; omit.
   • 1599, Ben Jonson, Every Man out of His Humour, V.8:

     If you can think upon any present means for his delivery, do not foreslow it.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To delay; hinder; impede; obstruct.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.10:

     But by no meanes my way I would forslow / For ought that ever she could doe or say […]

   • 1682, John Dryden, Epistles, XIII:

     The wond'ring Nereids, though they rais'd no storm, / Foreslow'd her passage, to behold her form.

3. (intransitive, obsolete) To be slow or dilatory; loiter.
   • c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3:

     Foreslow no longer, make we hence amaine.

Synonyms

• (To be dilatory about): See also Thesaurus:procrastinate
• (To delay): See also Thesaurus:hinder
• (To be slow or dilatory): See also Thesaurus:loiter

Derived terms

• forslowth