obturar

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• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
• Homophone: obturà

obturar (first-person singular present obturo, first-person singular preterite obturí, past participle obturat)

1. to block
   • 2002, Albert Sánchez Piñol, chapter 1, in La pell freda, La Campana, →ISBN:

     Només aquella mar freda, com sempre, obturada per núvols distants.

     Only that cold sea, as always, blocked by distant clouds.

Learned borrowing from Latin obtūrāre. Compare the doublet aturar.

obturar (first-person singular present obturo, first-person singular preterite obturei, past participle obturado)

1. to block, clog, obturate

From Latin obtūrāre. Compare the doublet atorar, borrowed from Old Occitan.

• IPA^(key): /obtuˈɾaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ob‧tu‧rar

obturar (first-person singular present obturo, first-person singular preterite obturé, past participle obturado)

1. (transitive) to block, clog, plug

   Synonyms: atascar, atorar

• “obturar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10