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obstacle
/ˈɑbstəkəl/
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What does obstacle mean?
noun
- Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress, either physically or figuratively
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Why, everything adheres together, that no dram of a scruple, no scruple of a scruple, no obstacle, no incredulous or unsafe circumstance.
I knew that to Ned Land, as well as to all other navigators who had preceded us, this was an inevitable obstacle.
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One hesitates to think that passion swayed her in being rid of the infant obstacle to the fifth marriage of her contemplation.
This relative impotence of democratic republics is, perhaps, the greatest obstacle to the foundation of a republic of this kind in Europe.
The very possession of wealth might indeed have proved an obstacle greater even than the humble means to which they were born.