Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Clogging"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Clogging \Clog"ging\, n.
Anything which clogs. --Dr. H. More.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Clog \Clog\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Clogged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Clogging}.]
1. To encumber or load, especially with something that
impedes motion; to hamper.

The winds of birds were clogged with ace and snow.
--Dryden.

2. To obstruct so as to hinder motion in or through; to choke
up; as, to clog a tube or a channel.

3. To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.

The commodities are clogged with impositions.
--Addison.

You 'll rue the time That clogs me with this answer.
--Shak.

Syn: Impede; hinder; obstruct; embarrass; burden; restrain;
restrict.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

clogging
adj : preventing movement; "the clogging crowds of revelers
overflowing into the street" [syn: {hindering}, {impeding},
{obstructive}]


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