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Answer for the clue "Blocked off ", 8 letters:
occluded

Word definitions for occluded in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 closed or obstructed 2 (context meteorology English) (''of air'') forced upwards by colder, denser air v (en-past of: occlude )

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. closed off; "an occluded artery" (of a substance) taken into and retained in another substance; "the sorbed oil mass"; "large volumes of occluded hydrogen in palladium" [syn: sorbed ]

Usage examples of occluded.

The gray walls of the courtyard were walls of shadow now, hardly to be seen at all except where their tops occluded the sky.

A dark shadow glided soundlessly through the under-growth, and she snapped her gaze up in time to see some-thing very large blot the fragments of sky not occluded by the distant canopy.

A pale promontory flashed in and out of view on the western horizon as a rainstorm occluded it at intervals.