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

1. verb. That which hinders or impedes motion; hence, an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment, of any kind.
2. verb. A weight, as a log or block of wood, attached to a man or an animal to hinder motion.
3. verb. 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.
4. transitive verb. To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
5. transitive verb. To obstruct so as to hinder motion in or through; to choke up; as, to clog a tube or a channel.
6. transitive verb. To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
7. intransitive verb. To become clogged; to become loaded or encumbered, as with extraneous matter.
8. intransitive verb. To coalesce or adhere; to unite in a mass.
9. noun. a dance performed while wearing shoes with wooden soles; has heavy stamping steps
10. noun. any object that acts as a hindrance or obstruction
11. noun. footwear usually with wooden soles

    Synonyms: geta, patten, sabot

12. verb. fill to excess so that function is impaired

    "Fear clogged her mind"

    "The story was clogged with too many details"

    Synonyms: overload

13. verb. coalesce or unite in a mass

    "Blood clots"

    Synonyms: clot

14. verb. impede with a clog or as if with a clog

    "The market is being clogged by these operations"

    "My mind is constipated today"

    Synonyms: constipate

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

    "horses were clogged until they were tamed"

16. verb. become or cause to become obstructed

    "The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"

    "The water pipe is backed up"

    Synonyms: choke, congest, foul

17. verb. dance a clog dance

Synonyms

geta, patten, sabot, overload, clot, constipate, choke, congest, foul

Common word forms

clogs, clogged, clogger, clogging

Words from these letters

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