clog
/klɑɡ/ verb B2- To block or slow passage through (often with 'up'). · Hair is clogging the drainpipe.· The roads are clogged up with traffic.
- To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
- To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
- To enforce a mortgage lender right that prevents a borrower from exercising a right to redeem.
- To perform a clog dance.
He/she/it clogs · Past clogged · Past participle clogged · -ing form clogging
Verb forms
- Base form
- clog
- He/she/it
- clogs
- Past
- clogged
- Past participle
- clogged
- -ing form
- clogging
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Fear, that relentless pursuer, clogged Dantès’ efforts.
To this dumb language, which was so unintelligible to others, she answered by throwing her whole soul into the expression of her countenance, and in this manner were the conversations sustained between the blooming girl and the helpless invalid, whose body could scarcely be called a living one, but who, nevertheless, possessed a fund of knowledge and penetration, united with a will as powerful as ever although clogged by a body rendered utterly incapable of obeying its impulses.
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