Search Result for "clogging":
Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1. preventing movement;
- Example: "the clogging crowds of revelers overflowing into the street"
[syn: clogging, hindering, impeding, obstructive]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Clogging \Clog"ging\, n. Anything which clogs. --Dr. H. More. [1913 Webster]The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Clog \Clog\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clogged (kl[o^]gd); p. pr. & vb. n. Clogging.] 1. To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper. [1913 Webster] The winds of birds were clogged with ace and snow. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 2. To obstruct so as to hinder motion in or through; to choke up; as, to clog a tube or a channel. [1913 Webster] 3. To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex. [1913 Webster] The commodities are clogged with impositions. --Addison. [1913 Webster] You 'll rue the time That clogs me with this answer. --Shak. Syn: Impede; hinder; obstruct; embarrass; burden; restrain; restrict. [1913 Webster]
