MEANING
To block or close off a passage, surface, or line of sight; also, to conceal.
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On the page
Drifting dust occluded the station lights.
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Word forms
- Base
- occlude
- Past tense
- occluded
- Past participle
- occluded
- Present participle
- occluding
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- occlude
- Present continuous
- am/is/are occluding
- Present perfect
- have/has occluded
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been occluding
- Past
- occluded
- Past continuous
- was/were occluding
- Past perfect
- had occluded
- Past perfect continuous
- had been occluding
- Future
- will occlude
- Future continuous
- will be occluding
- Future perfect
- will have occluded
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been occluding
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