verb
- Fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug.
- usage: "plug the hole"; "stop up the leak"
- Persist in working hard.
- usage: "Students must plug away at this problem"
- Deliver a quick blow to.
- usage: "he punched me in the stomach"
- Make a plug for; praise the qualities or in order to sell or promote.
- synonyms: plug
- Insert a plug into.
- usage: "plug the wall"
- synonyms: plug
- Insert as a plug.
- usage: "She plugged a cork in the wine bottle"
- synonyms: plug
adjective
- Of a coin. ( altered by the insertion of a plug of base metal)
- Completely obstructed or closed off.
- usage: "the storm was responsible for many blocked roads and bridges"; "the drain was plugged"
- synonyms: blocked
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