CLOGGED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clogged mean? 

• CLOGGED (adjective)
  The adjective CLOGGED has 3 senses:

1. thickened or coalesced in soft thick lumps (such as clogs or clots)

2. stopped up; clogged up

3. loaded with something that hinders motion

  Familiarity information: CLOGGED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLOGGED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Thickened or coalesced in soft thick lumps (such as clogs or clots)

Synonyms:

clogged; clotted

Context example:

seeds clogged together

Similar:

thick (relatively dense in consistency)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Stopped up; clogged up

Synonyms:

choked; clogged

Context example:

streets choked with traffic

Similar:

obstructed (shut off to passage or view or hindered from action)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Loaded with something that hinders motion

Context example:

The wings of birds were clogged with ice and snow

Similar:

encumbered (loaded to excess or impeded by a heavy load)

 Context examples 

Lifestyle changes and medicines may help prevent arteries from becoming clogged again.

(Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

Symptoms can include: • Sneezing, often with a runny or clogged nose • Coughing and postnasal drip • Itching eyes, nose and throat • Red and watery eyes • Dark circles under the eyes

(Hay Fever, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

He ran once, but the long gown clogged him so that he slowed down into a shambling walk, and finally plumped into the heather once more.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It may mean your blood vessels are clogged.

(Erectile Dysfunction, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

The tubes inside the ears become clogged with fluid and mucus.

(Ear Infections, NIH: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)

Though he did not know it, by the weight of his body he clogged the action of the leg and thereby saved his mother much damage.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I have known a great deal of the trouble of annuities; for my mother was clogged with the payment of three to old superannuated servants by my father's will, and it is amazing how disagreeable she found it.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I walked a long time, and when I thought I had nearly done enough, and might conscientiously yield to the fatigue that almost overpowered me—might relax this forced action, and, sitting down on a stone I saw near, submit resistlessly to the apathy that clogged heart and limb—I heard a bell chime—a church bell.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)