Make
Obstruct
Obstruct verb - To create difficulty for the work or activity of.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- He would often obstruct Vimes' investigation, knowing it would make him try even harder.
Source: Break the Badass - This is also a subtle Shout-Out to Peer Gynt, where the Mountain King prepares tools to obstruct the eyesight of the title character, to make him think that Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair.
Source: Theatre / The Wild Duck - Many people feel this completely defeats the point of the whole thing by writing a loophole into the rules to make it easier to simply obstruct passage or prevent any debate.
Source: Character Filibuster
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