Blocked

//blɑkt// adj, verb, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Obstructed, so that through movement or flow is prevented or impeded.

    "This road is blocked, so we must find another route."

  2. 2
    Unable to move owing to an obstruction.

    "The argument was over a blocked car in a driveway."

  3. 3
    Banned or barred from connecting or logging on. numeral, usually

    "Blocked users will be unable to access their accounts indefinitely."

  4. 4
    Disabled or disconnected, so as to prevent access or from performing certain actions.

    "All of this user's accounts are now blocked."

  5. 5
    Drunk. Ireland, slang

    "McKenna was found to be heavily intoxicated, and after caution he swore and replied: "I'm blocked.""

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  1. 6
    With black squares separating the lights and marking the ends of words.

    "In practice, setters of most normal blocked grids in daily or Sunday newspapers in both Britain and the US do not have to concern themselves with grid construction."

Adjective
  1. 1
    completely obstructed or closed off wordnet
  2. 2
    closed to traffic wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of block form-of, participle, past

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