verb
- Fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug.
- usage: "plug the hole"; "stop up the leak"
adjective
- Of a nose. ( blocked)
- usage: "a stopped (or stopped-up) nose"
- synonyms: stopped, stopped-up
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