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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
clog
1. footwear usually with wooden soles • Syn: geta, patten, sabot • Hypernyms: footwear, footgear 2. any object that acts as a hindrance or obstruction • Hypernyms: hindrance, hinderance, hitch, preventive, preventative, encumbrance, incumbrance, interference 3. a dance performed while wearing shoes with wooden soles; has heavy stamping steps • Syn: clog dance, clog dancing • Hypernyms: tap dancing, tap dance
1. become or cause to become obstructed (Freq. 4) - The leaves clog our drains in the Fall - The water pipe is backed up • Syn: choke off, clog up, back up, congest, choke, foul • Ant: unclog • Derivationally related forms: congestive (for: congest), congestion (for: congest), backup (for: back up) • Hypernyms: obstruct, obturate, impede, occlude, jam, block, close up • Hyponyms: gum up, crap up, stuff, lug, choke up, block, silt up, silt • Verb Frames: - Something ----s - Somebody ----s something - Something ----s something 2. dance a clog dance • Topics: dancing, dance, terpsichore, saltation • Hypernyms: dance, trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s - Sam and Sue clog 3. impede the motion of, as with a chain or a burden - horses were clogged until they were tamed • Hypernyms: restrain, encumber, cumber, constrain • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s something - Somebody ----s somebody - Something ----s somebody - Something ----s something 4. impede with a clog or as if with a clog - The market is being clogged by these operations - My mind is constipated today • Syn: constipate • Hypernyms: slow, slow down, slow up • Verb Frames: - Something ----s somebody - Something ----s something 5. coalesce or unite in a mass - Blood clots • Syn: clot • Derivationally related forms: clot (for: clot), clotting (for: clot) • Hypernyms: coalesce • Verb Frames: - Something ----s - Somebody ----s 6. fill to excess so that function is impaired - Fear clogged her mind - The story was clogged with too many details • Syn: overload • Derivationally related forms: overload (for: overload) • Hypernyms: fill, fill up, make full • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s something - Something ----s something
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