FILIBUSTER Synonyms

• preventing movement

• something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress

• any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome

• the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding

• a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries

• the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding

• electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication

• (American football) blocking a player's path with your body

• any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome

• the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts

• the act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others

• an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity

• some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity

• a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something

• any structure that makes progress difficult

• the physical condition of blocking or filling a passage with an obstruction

• something immaterial that stands in the way and must be circumvented or surmounted

• the act of obstructing

• getting in someone's way

• deliberate interference

• the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with

• the major political party opposed to the party in office and prepared to replace it if elected

• the relation between opposed entities

• the act of hostile groups opposing each other

• a contestant that you are matched against

• a body of people united in opposing something

• a direction opposite to another

• an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force)

• the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or deferring an action to a later time

• slowness as a consequence of not getting around to it

• a tactic used to mislead or delay

• stalling or delaying especially by refusing to answer questions or cooperate

• time during which some action is awaited

• the act of delaying; inactivity resulting in something being put off until a later time

• cause to be slowed down or delayed

• act later than planned, scheduled, or required

• stop or halt

• slow the growth or development of

• a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes