clog

Plural: clogs

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
• A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
• A blockage.
• A shoe of any type.
• A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
• That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.

Verb

Verb Forms: clogged, clogging, clogs

• To obstruct or block something, impeding flow or movement.
• become or cause to become obstructed
  • "The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"
• dance a clog dance
• impede the motion of, as with a chain or a burden
  • "horses were clogged until they were tamed"
• impede with a clog or as if with a clog
  • "The market is being clogged by these operations"
• coalesce or unite in a mass
• fill to excess so that function is impaired
  • "Fear clogged her mind"
  • "The story was clogged with too many details"
• To block or slow passage through (often with 'up').
• To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
• To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
• To enforce a mortgage lender right that prevents a borrower from exercising a right to redeem.
• To perform a clog dance.

Examples

• Dutch people rarely wear clogs these days.
• Hair is clogging the drainpipe.
• His strategy was to CLOG the board, preventing his opponent from making long words.
• The plumber cleared the clog from the drain.
• The roads are clogged up with traffic.

Synonyms

back up, choke, choke off, clog dance, clog dancing, clog up, clot, congest, constipate, foul, geta, overload, patten, sabot

Antonyms

unclog

Anagrams of clog