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

The basic pattern is to deny or occlude, then flip the script.

From Scientific American • Sep. 22, 2022

At the finish, they occlude themselves by unrolling scrolls of paper upward and reveal themselves by lowering the scrolls to the floor and walking down them.

From New York Times • Nov. 1, 2015

In order to train the patient to breathe again through the larynx it is necessary to occlude the cannula.

From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier