What is the meaning of clog?

noun

  • Footwear usually with wooden soles.
  • Any object that acts as a hindrance or obstruction.
  • A dance performed while wearing shoes with wooden soles; has heavy stamping steps.

verb

  • Become or cause to become obstructed.
    • usage: "The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"; "The water pipe is backed up"
  • Dance a clog dance.
  • Impede the motion of, as with a chain or a burden.
    • usage: "horses were clogged until they were tamed"
  • Impede with a clog or as if with a clog.
    • usage: "The market is being clogged by these operations"; "My mind is constipated today"
  • Coalesce or unite in a mass.
    • usage: "Blood clots"
  • Fill to excess so that function is impaired.
    • usage: "Fear clogged her mind"; "The story was clogged with too many details"
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