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Obstruct vs Forslow - What's the difference?

obstruct | forslow |

As verbs the difference between obstruct and forslow

is that obstruct is to block or fill (a passage) with obstacles or an obstacle see synonyms at block while forslow is (obsolete) to be dilatory about; put off; postpone; neglect; omit.

obstruct

English

Verb

  • To block or fill (a passage) with obstacles or an obstacle. See Synonyms at block.
  • To impede, retard, or interfere with; hinder: obstructed my progress.
  • To get in the way of so as to hide from sight.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    forslow

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To be dilatory about; put off; postpone; neglect; omit.
  • *1599 , (Ben Jonson), Every Man out of His Humour , V.8:
  • *:If you can think upon any present means for his delivery, do not foreslow it.
  • (obsolete) To delay; hinder; impede; obstruct.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.10:
  • *:But by no meanes my way I would forslow / For ought that ever she could doe or say […].
  • *1682 , (John Dryden), Epistles , XIII:
  • *:The wond'ring Nereids, though they rais'd no storm, / Foreslow'd her passage, to behold her form.
  • (obsolete) To be slow or dilatory; loiter.
  • *c. 1591 , (William Shakespeare), Henry VI, Part 3 :
  • *:Foreslow no longer, make we hence amaine.

    • Derived terms

    * (l)