occlude
verb/əˈkluːd/
Etymology Borrowed from Latin occlūdere, from ob (“before”) and claudere (“to shut”).
1
To obstruct, cover, or otherwise block (an opening, a portion of an image, etc.).
- His reflection is occluded by the mist on the mirror.2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 301:
2
To absorb, as a gas by a metal.
- Derived terms
- malocclude, nonoccluded, occludable, occluded front, occluder, occludin, reocclude, re-occlude, reoccluded, unoccluded
- Related terms
- disocclude, disocclusion, occlusal, occlusion, occlusive, postoccluded, preoccluded