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Obumbrant
- - Overhanging; as, obumbrant feathers.
Obviating
- verb - do away with
- made impossible
- prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; "Let's avoid a confrontation"; "head off a confrontation"; "avert a strike"
Occasions
- noun - a vaguely specified social event; "the party was quite an affair"; "an occasion arranged to honor the president"; "a seemingly endless round of social functions"
- an event that occurs at a critical time; "at such junctures he always had an impulse to leave"; "it was needed only on special occasions"
- an opportunity to do something; "there was never an occasion for her to demonstrate her skill"
- give occasion to
- Notable event
- reason; "there was no occasion for complaint"
- something you have to do; "he minded his own specialized occasions"
- the time of a particular event; "on the occasion of his 60th birthday"
Occludent
- - Serving to close; shutting up. -- n. That which closes or shuts up.
Occluding
- verb - block passage through; "obstruct the path"
- Close together, of teeth
- To close, shut or stop up
Occulting
- verb - become concealed or hidden from view or have its light extinguished; "The beam of light occults every so often"
- cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention; "The Sun eclipses the moon today"; "Planets and stars often are occulted by other celestial bodies"
- hide from view; "The lids were occulting her eyes"
Occupying
- verb - assume, as of positions or roles; "She took the job as director of development"; "he occupies the position of manager"; "the young prince will soon occupy the throne"
- be on the mind of; "I worry about the second Germanic consonant shift"
- consume all of one's attention or time; "Her interest in butterflies absorbs her completely"
- keep busy with; "She busies herself with her butterfly collection"
- live (in a certain place); "She resides in Princeton"; "he occupies two rooms on the top floor"
- march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation; "Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939"
- occupy the whole of; "The liquid fills the container"
- require (time or space); "It took three hours to get to work this morning"; "This event occupied a very short time"
Occurrent
- adjective - an event that happens
- presently occurring (either causally or incidentally); "technical terms are rarely occurrent in literature"
Occurring
- verb - come to one's mind; suggest itself; "It occurred to me that we should hire another secretary"; "A great idea then came to her"
- come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place without incident"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important"
- happen
- to be found to exist; "sexism occurs in many workplaces"; "precious stones occur in a large area in Brazil"