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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