From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishblock somebody/something ↔ in phrasal verb1 to park your car too close to another car, so that the other one cannot drive away2 to paint or draw simple shapes or areas of colour I’ll just block in the main buildings. → block→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
block in• By March 31 Gamsakhurdia forces were said to be in retreat although railways and roads were still blocked.• Patients should not be discharged without such arrangements, but nor should beds be blocked unnecessarily.• Trapped between inadequate beliefs and unwarranted apprehensions, they find the path to high performance blocked.• Place frozen block of spinach in greased 1-quart casserole.• Local anesthetics may block impulse replication in mid-axon.• The concrete block shell was in place by early 1992 ready for the 25-week facing brickwork stage to begin.• He was among 20 inmates who were moved between jail blocks that morning in preparation for court appearances.• However, as a woman, I am often disappointed by the stumbling blocks put in the way of performance poets. 