Dictionary Entry
clog
clog is a 4-letter English word with 17 senses as verb, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: That which hinders or impedes motion; hence, an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment, of any kind. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 10 · 17 senses
Definitions
- 1verb
That which hinders or impedes motion; hence, an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment, of any kind.
- 2verb
A weight, as a log or block of wood, attached to a man or an animal to hinder motion.
- 3verb
A shoe, or sandal, intended to protect the feet from wet, or to increase the apparent stature, and having, therefore, a very thick sole. Cf. Chopine.
- 4transitive verb
To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
- 5transitive verb
To obstruct so as to hinder motion in or through; to choke up; as, to clog a tube or a channel.
- 6transitive verb
To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
- 7intransitive verb
To become clogged; to become loaded or encumbered, as with extraneous matter.
- 8intransitive verb
To coalesce or adhere; to unite in a mass.
- 9noun
a dance performed while wearing shoes with wooden soles; has heavy stamping steps
- 10noun
any object that acts as a hindrance or obstruction
- 11noun
footwear usually with wooden soles
- 12verb
fill to excess so that function is impaired
"Fear clogged her mind"
"The story was clogged with too many details"
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- 13verb
coalesce or unite in a mass
"Blood clots"
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- 14verb
impede with a clog or as if with a clog
"The market is being clogged by these operations"
"My mind is constipated today"
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- 15verb
impede the motion of, as with a chain or a burden
"horses were clogged until they were tamed"
- 16verb
become or cause to become obstructed
"The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"
"The water pipe is backed up"
- 17verb
dance a clog dance
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