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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

... How can she know what 'tis, for months and months To stoop and straddle in the clogging fallows, Bearing about a living babe within you? And then at night to fat yourself and it On ...

— The Saint's Tragedy • Charles Kingsley

... the cheapest, but is generally filled with low people. The interieur is so large and so well cushioned that it is easy to sleep in it ordinarily, and, had it not been for the sudden stops occasioned by the clogging of the wheels in the snow, we should have had very good rest; but the discordant music made by the wheels as they ground the frozen snow, sounding like innumerable instruments, mostly discordant, but now and then concordant, prevented our ...

— Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals - In Two Volumes, Volume I. • Samuel F. B. Morse

... deputies from the commercial towns in the states-general caused the others to become mere ciphers in times of peace; only capable of clogging the march of affairs, and of being, on occasions of civil dissensions, the mere tools of whatever party possessed the greatest tact in turning them to their purpose. Hence a wide field was open to corruption. ...

— Holland - The History of the Netherlands • Thomas Colley Grattan

... 'With all my heart I agree with Plato; indeed, this is now the second time that these things have been brought back to my mind—first I lost them through the clogging contact of the body; then after through the stress ...

— The Consolation of Philosophy • Boethius

... or semi-molten rock slammed against the hull, knocking off wings and control-surfaces. Gobs of viscous slag slapped it liquidly, freezing into and clogging up jets and orifices. The little ship was hurled hither and yon, in the grip of forces she could no more resist than can the floating leaf resist the waters of a cataract. And Cloud's brain was as addled as an egg ...

— The Vortex Blaster • Edward Elmer Smith

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