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UK
/klˈɒɡ/
]
[ US /ˈkɫɑɡ/ ]
[ US /ˈkɫɑɡ/ ]
NOUN
- footwear usually with wooden soles
- a dance performed while wearing shoes with wooden soles; has heavy stamping steps
- any object that acts as a hindrance or obstruction
VERB
-
fill to excess so that function is impaired
The story was clogged with too many details
Fear clogged her mind -
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
My mind is constipated today
The market is being clogged by these operations - dance a clog dance
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become or cause to become obstructed
The leaves clog our drains in the Fall
The water pipe is backed up -
coalesce or unite in a mass
Blood clots
How To Use clog In A Sentence
- The record was, I think, called Peace, a heart-warming exhortation for world leaders to avoid war – although many of them, unbelievably, have completely ignored the doughty cloggers' message in the intervening years. Which footballers have produced their own food and drink?
- A number of people contacted the paper to claim that flu cases were clogging doctors' surgeries and forcing schools to appoint supply teachers in place of ailing staff.
- If these canals cannot be unclogged, they should be closed.
- English pastoral was inaugurated by Spenser's verse eclogues in The Shepheardes Calendar and further developed in The Arcadia, a prose romance by Sidney.
- The little village was almost medieval - ox carts pulled the harvest in and the farmers all wore wooden clogs. Times, Sunday Times
- At the outset, a solution to Bangalore's clogging drains can't be that simplistic.
- Everything goes well until one critical day when the wooden clogs are no longer usable.
- To make sure your system operates efficiently, examine it frequently, checking for leaks, clogs, or misdirected sprinklers or drip-emitters.
- In most Wigan mines, though, the standard headgear was a woven scarf or shawl, the standard footwear the clog.
- Deservedly proud of his fine record with Ireland and first years at SunderlandClogger or tiki-taka? Wolverhampton Wanderers Premier League 2011-12 team guide