How to pronounce “obstruent”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• Causing obstruction; blocking up.
• [Noun]
• (phonetics) A consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway, causing turbulence; a plosive, fricative, or affricate.
• (medicine) Anything that obstructs, especially in the passages of the body.
• [Verb]
• third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of obstruer

Practice Nearby Words

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Similar Sounds

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