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clogged
1. adj. Having an obstructed flow; blocked.
clog
1. n. A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
Dutch people rarely wear clogs these days.
2. n. A blockage.
The plumber cleared the clog from the drain.
3. n. (colloquial) A shoe of any type.
4. n. A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
5. n. That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.
6. v. To block or slow passage through (often with 'up).
Hair is clogging the drainpipe.
The roads are clogged up with traffic.
7. v. To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
8. v. To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
9. v. (law) To enforce a mortgage lender right that prevents a borrower from exercising a right to redeem.

Example Sentences

Too much coffee and too many donuts probably got his heart all clogged up.  Fish farms in Scotland and Shetland have lost stocks of mature salmon because the cages in which the fish live have become so clogged with jellyfish that thousands of salmon have died from lack of oxygen.

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