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/klˈɑgɪŋ/ /klˈɔgɪŋ/ Listen

noun

Clogging n. Anything which clogs.

verb

Clog v. t. (past & past part. clogged; pres. part. clogging)

To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper. "The winds of birds were clogged with ace and snow."

To obstruct so as to hinder motion in or through; to choke up; as, to clog a tube or a channel.

To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex. "The commodities are clogged with impositions." "You 'll rue the time That clogs me with this answer."

Synonyms: Impede; hinder; obstruct; embarrass; burden; restrain; restrict.

Clog v. i.

To become clogged; to become loaded or encumbered, as with extraneous matter. "In working through the bone, the teeth of the saw will begin to clog."

To coalesce or adhere; to unite in a mass. "Move it sometimes with a broom, that the seeds clog not together."

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Etymology of 'Clogging'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Clogging" Quotes from Famous Books

... Moreover, just in front of it there is a fold of mucous membrane called the epiglottis, which is in reality a tiny trapdoor closing over the opening when necessity requires. When the bird swallows food or drink, this little flap shuts down, and prevents the entrance of any clogging substance into the windpipe ...

— Our Bird Comrades • Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) Keyser

... ineffectual. Even had the two men's dislike to each other's society been less, the general din of the night would have prevented much talking; as it was, they sat in a rigid reticence that was almost a third personality. The roads were laid hereabouts with a light sandy gravel, which, though not clogging, was soft and friable. It speedily became saturated, and the wheels ground heavily and deeply ...

— The Hand of Ethelberta • Thomas Hardy

... have not, you cannot understand. This matter of the soldier's pack and what to do with it became a subject of serious consideration during the recent war, in both Cuba and Puerto Rico. On the march, in the charge or pursuit or retreat, it is a senseless, clogging, spirit-shackling incubus, a rank absurdity, and an utter impossibility. As a result, after three days of active campaign the infantryman is seen gayly stalking along with no burden save his rifle, ammunition-belt, ...

— From Yauco to Las Marias • Karl Stephen Herrman

... skipped in spite of the clogging snow. "I think that somewhere there is Somebody who knows about everything, but I don't think He means us to ask for anything we want just because we want it and don't do a lick to get it. I've been ...

— How It Happened • Kate Langley Bosher

... skillful man, they form an armory of means with which such an amount of good can be done as beggars our imagination. Combined with the most faithful attention to the patient's diet—the establishment of healthful nutrition, so that as fast as those abnormal matters which have been clogging the system get cleared away by Nature's relentless processes of decomposition, fresh material may be soundly built up into the system to replace the strength which the fatal stimulant feigned—combined with vigilant, tender, patient nursing—the means described are probably, in many cases, adequate ...

— The Opium Habit • Horace B. Day

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