clog

About 0.45 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.

   Dutch people rarely wear clogs these days.

2. noun A blockage.

   The plumber cleared the clog from the drain.

3. noun A shoe of any type.
4. noun A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
5. noun That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.
6. verb To block or slow passage through (often with 'up').

   Hair is clogging the drainpipe.

7. verb To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
8. verb To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.

Similar words

patten sabot geta congest clot choke choke off clog up back up overload

Often followed by

the up and on upon to or in of

Word family

clogged clogger cloggers clogging clogs