Block
Block verb - To close up so that no empty spaces remain.
Upholding
Both words in one sentence
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He forced almost every literate man in England to swear an oath upholding the new succession and his new title; those who wouldn't, including his "close friend" Thomas More, ended up on the chopping block.
Source: Useful Notes / Henry VIII
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