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.
- synonyms: clog
- Impede the motion of, as with a chain or a burden.
- usage: "horses were clogged until they were tamed"
- synonyms: clog
- Impede with a clog or as if with a clog.
- usage: "The market is being clogged by these operations"; "My mind is constipated today"
- synonyms: clog, constipate
- 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"
adjective
- Preventing movement.
- usage: "the clogging crowds of revelers overflowing into the street"
- synonyms: hindering, impeding, obstructive
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