clog

verb
🔊/klɒɡ/
🔊/klɑːɡ/
[transitive, often passive, intransitive]
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they clog
🔊/klɒɡ/
🔊/klɑːɡ/
he / she / it clogs
🔊/klɒɡz/
🔊/klɑːɡz/
past simple clogged
🔊/klɒɡd/
🔊/klɑːɡd/
past participle clogged
🔊/klɒɡd/
🔊/klɑːɡd/
-ing form clogging
🔊/ˈklɒɡɪŋ/
🔊/ˈklɑːɡɪŋ/
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  1. to block something or to become blocked(使)阻塞,堵塞
    • clog something (up) (with something) The narrow streets were clogged with traffic.狭窄的街道上交通堵塞。🔊🔊
    • Tears clogged her throat.她哽咽了。🔊🔊
    • The wheels got clogged up with mud.车轮让烂泥糊住了。
    • clog (up) (with something) Within a few years the pipes began to clog up.没有几年管子就开始堵塞了。🔊🔊
    opposite unclog
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryClog is used with these nouns as the subject:
    • traffic
    Clog is used with these nouns as the object:
    • artery
    • drain
    • highway
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    Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘block of wood to impede an animal's movement’): of unknown origin.

clog

noun
🔊/klɒɡ/
🔊/klɑːɡ/
Idioms
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  1. a shoe that is completely made of wood or one that has a thick wooden sole and a leather top木底鞋;木鞋;木屐
    Topics Clothes and Fashionc2
    Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘block of wood to impede an animal's movement’): of unknown origin.
Idioms
pop your clogs
  1. (British English, humorous) to die翘辫子;上西天;一命呜呼