obstructed

/əbˈstrʌktɪd/

Something that's obstructed is blocked or closed off. If a spelunker — or cave explorer — finds that a tunnel is obstructed, she'll turn around and crawl back the way she came.

If a passageway is obstructed, you can't fit through, and if your throat is obstructed, there's a piece of food stuck there momentarily. The adjective obstructed shows up a lot in medical terminology, especially when the digestive or circulatory systems are unhealthily obstructed, but you can use it to simply mean "blocked." The Latin root is obstructionem, "a barrier or a building up."

Definitions of obstructed

1. adjective

   shut off to passage or view or hindered from action
   “a partially obstructed passageway”

   “an obstructed view”

   “justice obstructed is not justice”

   synonyms:

   barred, barricaded, blockaded

   preventing entry or exit or a course of action

   blocked, plugged

   completely obstructed or closed off

   choked, clogged

   stopped up; clogged up

   deadlocked, stalemated

   at a complete standstill because of opposition of two unrelenting forces or factions

   impeded

   made difficult or slow

   occluded

   closed off

   stopped, stopped up, stopped-up

   (of a nose) blocked

   stuffy

   affected with a sensation of stoppage or obstruction

   thrombosed

   affected with or obstructed by a clot of coagulated blood

   closed

   not open or affording passage or access

   antonyms:

   unobstructed

   free from impediment or obstruction or hindrance

   clear, open

   affording free passage or view

   patent

   (of a bodily tube or passageway) open; affording free passage

   unimpeded

   not slowed or prevented

   unclogged

   freed of obstructions