SPILING Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

spiling

verb

present participle of spile

as in stoppling

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By temporarily clogging excess blood vessels, doctors can reduce inflammation and quiet pain-sensing nerves without major surgery or permanent implants.

— Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2026
One of the pipes was abandoned and out of service due to clogging.

— Frederick Sutton Sinclair, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of clogging

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In contrast, Golden Week (which starts in early October) is Hong Kong's busiest travel period and sees an enormous amount of tour groups flock to the city, filling up shopping malls and overwhelming the main tourist attractions.

— Lee Cobaj, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2026
No one makes it through the front door without a warm welcome, then to be greeted by walls of yarn and crafting tables filling the floor space.

— Joy Benedict, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026

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The federal agency also warned that obstructing immigration officers is a federal crime.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 22 Oct. 2026
During the investigation, it was alleged that Stewart, who is a resident, returned to the property and was later taken into custody for obstructing a peace officer.

— Jeramie Bizzle, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of obstructing

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These could be damming a river, suppressing natural wildfires, or suppressing beaver damage.

— Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 7 Sep. 2026
Scientists now believe that part of the glacier snapped off and fell to the valley below, temporarily damming a river before the force of water surged forward.

— Aakash Hassan, Christian Science Monitor, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of damming

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Prop 42 would bar retroactive taxes and ban new state taxes on personal property, effectively blocking Prop 40.

— Bilin Lin, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
Or maybe Kosmos 2612 was actively interfering with ICEYE-X36 in some way — messing with its sensors, perhaps, or blocking or intercepting its communications with the ground.

— Mike Wall, Space.com, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of blocking

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From Earth’s vantage point—right along the faraway magnetar’s equator—the wobbling disk acted like a film projector’s shutter, periodically occluding our view of the dead star supercharging SN 2024afav.

— Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 11 Mar. 2026
For example, if a ball rolled behind some occluding object and temporarily disappeared from view, the model generated an error when the ball didn’t reappear from behind the object in future frames.

— Anil Ananthaswamy, Wired News, 7 Dec. 2025

Definition of occluding

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