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[ klog, klawg ] / klɒg, klɔg / SEE SYNONYMS FOR clog ON THESAURUS.COM
verb (used with object), clogged, clog·ging.to hinder or obstruct with thick or sticky matter; choke up: to clog a drain. to crowd excessively, especially so that movement is impeded; overfill: Cars clogged the highway. to encumber; hamper; hinder. verb (used without object), clogged, clog·ging.to become clogged, encumbered, or choked up. to stick; stick together. nounanything that impedes motion or action; an encumbrance; a hindrance. a shoe or sandal with a thick sole of wood, cork, rubber, or the like. a similar but lighter shoe worn in the clog dance. a heavy block, as of wood, fastened to a person or beast to impede movement. clog dance. British Dialect. a thick piece of wood. Origin of clog1350–1400; Middle English, of uncertain origin SYNONYMS FOR clog3 impede, trammel, fetter. SEE SYNONYMS FOR clog ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM clogclog·gi·ly, adverbclog·gi·ness, nouncloggy, adjectivean·ti·clog·ging, adjective o·ver·clog, verb (used with object), o·ver·clogged, o·ver·clog·ging. Words nearby clogclodhopping, clodpoll, Cloë, Cloete, clofibrate, clog, clog dance, clogger, cloggy, cloisonné, cloister Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for clogBloggers and street photographers will clog the entrances of each show incessantly posting to their Twitter and Instagram feeds. Who to See and Where to be Seen: The Hot Tips for New York Fashion Week|Barbara Ragghianti|September 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST If we load it with the oil of luxury, it will give an additional vigor, but in the end, clog and impede the motion. An History of Birmingham (1783)|William Hutton In the past months his work had seemed to clog up in details and slow down. Security|Ernest M. Kenyon What a clog upon a Minister to have people, bred in such scenes, forced upon him! Rural Rides|William Cobbett
The clog catches in the brush and between trees and usually he disna get very far, because the heavy drag tires him. The Boy Scouts in A Trapper's Camp|Thornton W. Burgess Fred, you get the clamps from the knapsack, while I cut that bushy tree for a clog. Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper|Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock
British Dictionary definitions for clog (1 of 2)
verb clogs, clogging or cloggedto obstruct or become obstructed with thick or sticky matter (tr) to encumber; hinder; impede (tr) to fasten a clog or impediment to (an animal, such as a horse) (intr) to adhere or stick in a mass slang (in soccer) to foul (an opponent) noun- any of various wooden or wooden-soled shoes
- (as modifier)clog dance
a heavy block, esp of wood, fastened to the leg of a person or animal to impede motion something that impedes motion or action; hindrance pop one's clogs slang to die Derived forms of clogcloggy, adjectiveclogginess, nounWord Origin for clogC14 (in the sense: block of wood): of unknown origin British Dictionary definitions for clog (2 of 2)
verb clogs, clogging or cloggedto use a photo-enabled mobile phone to take a photograph of (someone) and send it to a website without his or her knowledge or consent Derived forms of clogclogging, nounWord Origin for clogC21: c(amera) + log Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to clogplug, obstruct, congest, choke, impede, seal, hamper, fill, encumbrance, blockade, snag, obstruction, drag, impediment, burden, hindrance, bar, block, impedance, jam |