transitive verb

• Block up; obstruct.

  ‘Many of today's shooters have tried shooting these old rifles and experienced dismal results when the bullets failed to expand properly and obturate the bore.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘When it's excessive like that we know that there wasn't even enough pressure to obturate the case at all.’
  • ‘This is an indication that pressure is so low the case is not obturating to completely seal the chamber.’
  • ‘The idea behind the hollow base was to make it easy for the bullet to obturate and fully engrave the rifling at the very low pressures involved.’
  • ‘The Foster slugs have very shallow rifling and since these slugs obturate in shotgun bores, most of these grooves are ironed out in the process.’