occlude

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To improve this, Dr Alexander suggests reducing headphone use time and using the transparency mode which can amplify the background noise as well as wearing headphones that don't completely occlude or block the ears.

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2025

It would lead to voter confusion, especially since clerks would inevitably place some stickers a few centimeters off by accident, failing to fully occlude Kennedy’s name and accidentally blocking out another.

From Slate • Sep. 24, 2024

Such clouds are why the star count methods failed: From almost any viewpoint in the galaxy, they would occlude your line of sight and produce the illusion of gazing out from near the center.

From Scientific American • Aug. 4, 2023

The series begins with these stereotypes, then works to reveal the humanity that the stereotypes occlude.

From New York Times • May 13, 2022

Foreign Bodies in the Air-Passages.—Foreign bodies impacted in the pharynx usually consist of unmasticated pieces of meat or large tooth-plates, and they occlude both the food and the air-passages, frequently causing sudden death.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander