Synonyms for clog
klɒg, klɔgclog

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1. clog

   To hinder is to keep from action, progress, motion, or growth, or to make such action, progress, motion, or growth later in beginning or completion than it would otherwise have been. An action is prevented by anything that comes in before it to make it impossible; it is hindered by anything that keeps it from either beginning or ending so soon as it otherwise would, or as expected or intended. It is more common, however, to say that the start is delayed, the progress hindered. An action that is hindered does not take place at the appointed or appropriate time; that which is prevented does not take place at all; to hinder a thing long enough may amount to preventing it. A railroad-train may be hindered by a snow-storm from arriving on time; it may by special order be prevented from starting. To retard is simply to make slow by any means whatever. To obstruct is to hinder, or possibly to prevent advance or passage by putting something in the way; to oppose or resist is to hinder, or possibly to prevent by directly contrary or hostile action, resist being the stronger term and having more suggestion of physical force; obstructed roads hinder the march of an enemy, tho there may be no force strong enough to oppose it; one opposes a measure, a motion, an amendment, or the like; it is a criminal offense to resist an officer in the discharge of his duty; the physical system may resist the attack of disease or the action of a remedy. Compare CONQUER; IMPEDIMENT; OBSTRUCT.

   See synonyms for QUICKEN.

   Synonyms:
   baffle, balk, bar, block, check, counteract, delay, embarrass, encumber, foil, frustrate, hamper, hinder, impede, interrupt, obstruct, oppose, prevent, resist, retard, stay, stop, thwart

   Preposition:
   Hinder one in his progress; from acting promptly; by opposition.

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1. clog, geta, patten, sabotnoun

   footwear usually with wooden soles

   Synonyms:
   wooden shoe, geta, patten, clog dancing, sabot, clog dance

   Antonyms:
   unclog

2. clognoun

   any object that acts as a hindrance or obstruction

   Synonyms:
   geta, patten, clog dancing, sabot, clog dance

   Antonyms:
   unclog

3. clog dance, clog dancing, clogverb

   a dance performed while wearing shoes with wooden soles; has heavy stamping steps

   Synonyms:
   geta, patten, clog dancing, sabot, clog dance

   Antonyms:
   unclog

4. clog, choke off, clog up, back up, congest, choke, foulverb

   become or cause to become obstructed

   "The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"; "The water pipe is backed up"

   Synonyms:
   contaminate, drop dead, strangle, pop off, gag, buy the farm, give-up the ghost, clot, choke, foul, throttle, support, cash in one's chips, fret, befoul, kick the bucket, expire, choke off, back, pass away, perish, croak, conk, asphyxiate, defile, clog up, back up, snuff it, decease, maculate, back down, go, choke down, constipate, pass, exit, back off, die, pollute, suffocate, overload, congest, scrag, stifle, choke back

   Antonyms:
   unclog

5. clogverb

   dance a clog dance

   Synonyms:
   overload, back up, choke off, foul, constipate, clot, clog up, congest, choke

   Antonyms:
   unclog

6. clogverb

   impede the motion of, as with a chain or a burden

   "horses were clogged until they were tamed"

   Synonyms:
   overload, back up, choke off, foul, constipate, clot, clog up, congest, choke

   Antonyms:
   unclog

7. clog, constipateverb

   impede with a clog or as if with a clog

   "The market is being clogged by these operations"; "My mind is constipated today"

   Synonyms:
   overload, back up, choke off, foul, constipate, clot, clog up, congest, choke, bind

   Antonyms:
   unclog

8. clog, clotverb

   coalesce or unite in a mass

   "Blood clots"

   Synonyms:
   overload, back up, choke off, curdle, foul, constipate, clot, clog up, coagulate, clabber, congest, choke

   Antonyms:
   unclog

9. clog, overloadverb

   fill to excess so that function is impaired

   "Fear clogged her mind"; "The story was clogged with too many details"

   Synonyms:
   overload, back up, choke off, overcharge, foul, constipate, clot, clog up, congest, choke, surcharge

   Antonyms:
   unclog

Matched Categories

1. • Coalesce
   • Dance
   • Dancing
   • Encumber
   • Fill
   • Footwear
   • Hindrance
   • Slow

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. clogverb

   Synonyms:
   trammel, shackle, fetter

2. clogverb

   Synonyms:
   obstruct, impede, hinder, restrain, embarrass, cumber, encumber, CLAM

3. clognoun

   Synonyms:
   trammel, fetter, shackle, drag weight, dead weight

4. clognoun

   Synonyms:
   impediment, encumbrance, hinderance, obstacle, obstruction, check, drawback

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. clognoun

   Synonyms:
   shackle, dragweight, deadweight, encumbrance, sabot, chopine

2. clogverb

   Synonyms:
   impede, hamper, encumber, restrain, obstruct

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "clog":

   hoof, obstruct

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How to use clog in a sentence?

1. Venu Menon:

   While these symptoms lack specificity they will empower more people to alert EMS, on the flip side, a large proportion of worried well may also clog up limited EMS services if an alarmist approach is taken.

2. Tim Steffen:

   You can think of it as concrete where the water is not being absorbed into the soils ; it's all just running off, downstream of those fire scars all that water is running off, some debris as well from the fire, and that can clog culverts. Those areas are susceptible to flash flooding more so than those areas that haven't been burned.

3. Raj Dasgupta:

   What are going to be things that could block or clog or upper airways ? It's going to be the tonsils, the uvula, the soft palate and the tongue.

4. Dale Wilcox:

   It also provides yet another incentive for more illegal aliens to come and will further clog up our immigration courts, some of the most backed up in the nation.

5. Charles A. Stoddard:

   When we can say "no" not only to things that are wrong and sinful, but also to things pleasant, profitable, and good which would hinder and clog our grand duties and our chief work, we shall understand more fully what life is worth, and how to make the most of it.