CLOG (clogged, clogging)

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Irregular inflected forms: clogged    , clogging   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does clog mean? 

• CLOG (noun)
  The noun CLOG has 3 senses:

1. footwear usually with wooden soles

2. any object that acts as a hindrance or obstruction

3. a dance performed while wearing shoes with wooden soles; has heavy stamping steps

  Familiarity information: CLOG used as a noun is uncommon.

• CLOG (verb)
  The verb CLOG has 6 senses:

1. become or cause to become obstructed

2. dance a clog dance

3. impede the motion of, as with a chain or a burden

4. impede with a clog or as if with a clog

5. coalesce or unite in a mass

6. fill to excess so that function is impaired

  Familiarity information: CLOG used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLOG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Footwear usually with wooden soles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

clog; geta; patten; sabot

Hypernyms ("clog" is a kind of...):

footgear; footwear (covering for a person's feet)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any object that acts as a hindrance or obstruction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("clog" is a kind of...):

encumbrance; hinderance; hindrance; hitch; incumbrance; interference; preventative; preventive (any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome)

Derivation:

clog (fill to excess so that function is impaired)

clog (become or cause to become obstructed)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A dance performed while wearing shoes with wooden soles; has heavy stamping steps

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

clog; clog dance; clog dancing

Hypernyms ("clog" is a kind of...):

tap dance; tap dancing (a dance step tapped out audibly with the feet)

Derivation:

clog (dance a clog dance)

• CLOG (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they clog    ... he / she / it clogs   
Past simple: clogged   
Past participle: clogged   
-ing form: clogging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become or cause to become obstructed

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

back up; choke; choke off; clog; clog up; congest; foul

Context example:

The water pipe is backed up

Hypernyms (to "clog" is one way to...):

block; close up; impede; jam; obstruct; obturate; occlude (block passage through)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "clog"):

gum up (stick together as if with gum)

crap up (become obstructed or chocked up)

block; choke up; lug; stuff (obstruct)

silt; silt up (become chocked with silt)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Antonym:

unclog (become or cause to become unobstructed)

Derivation:

clog (any object that acts as a hindrance or obstruction)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Dance a clog dance

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "clog" is one way to...):

dance; trip the light fantastic; trip the light fantastic toe (move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance)

Domain category:

dance; dancing; saltation; terpsichore (taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue clog

Derivation:

clog (a dance performed while wearing shoes with wooden soles; has heavy stamping steps)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Impede the motion of, as with a chain or a burden

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

horses were clogged until they were tamed

Hypernyms (to "clog" is one way to...):

cumber; encumber; restrain (restrict (someone or something) so as to make free movement difficult)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Impede with a clog or as if with a clog

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

clog; constipate

Context example:

My mind is constipated today

Hypernyms (to "clog" is one way to...):

slow; slow down; slow up (cause to proceed more slowly)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sense 5

Meaning:

Coalesce or unite in a mass

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

clog; clot

Context example:

Blood clots

Hypernyms (to "clog" is one way to...):

coalesce (fuse or cause to grow together)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Sense 6

Meaning:

Fill to excess so that function is impaired

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

clog; overload

Context example:

The story was clogged with too many details

Hypernyms (to "clog" is one way to...):

fill; fill up; make full (make full, also in a metaphorical sense)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

clog (any object that acts as a hindrance or obstruction)

 Context examples 

It may mean your blood vessels are clogged.

(Erectile Dysfunction, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

"That is my only criticism in the large way. I followed the story, but there seemed so much else. It is too wordy. You clog the action by introducing so much extraneous material."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The tubes inside the ears become clogged with fluid and mucus.

(Ear Infections, NIH: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)

The mucus clogs the lungs, causing breathing problems and making it easy for bacteria to grow.

(Cystic Fibrosis, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

It also has benefits such as simple maintenance, no frequent clogging and no energy requirements.

(Soil-based filter bricks clean up water for Moroccan farmers, SciDev.Net)

Pimples form when hair follicles under your skin clog up.

(Acne, NIH: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)

Symptoms can include: • Sneezing, often with a runny or clogged nose • Coughing and postnasal drip • Itching eyes, nose and throat • Red and watery eyes • Dark circles under the eyes

(Hay Fever, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

Nothing more alarming occurred than a fear, on Mrs. Allen's side, of having once left her clogs behind her at an inn, and that fortunately proved to be groundless.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

He ran once, but the long gown clogged him so that he slowed down into a shambling walk, and finally plumped into the heather once more.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Though he did not know it, by the weight of his body he clogged the action of the leg and thereby saved his mother much damage.

(White Fang, by Jack London)