(v.) That which hinders or impedes motion; hence, an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment, of any kind.
(v.) A weight, as a log or block of wood, attached to a man or an animal to hinder motion.
(v.) A shoe, or sandal, intended to protect the feet from wet, or to increase the apparent stature, and having, therefore, a very thick sole. Cf. Chopine.
(v. t.) To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
(v. t.) To obstruct so as to hinder motion in or through; to choke up; as, to clog a tube or a channel.
(v. t.) To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
(v. i.) To become clogged; to become loaded or encumbered, as with extraneous matter.
(v. i.) To coalesce or adhere; to unite in a mass.
Example Sentences:
(1) Recent research has shown that more than two-thirds of internet users would ignore warning letters, and with more than 6 million internet users in Britain regularly downloading illegally copied music and films, the media industry believes so-called "technical measures", such as slowing down broadband connections, should be introduced before the courts system is clogged up with thousands of lawsuits.
(2) Additional modifications include design of a reliable sampling catheter and of a method for quickly and atraumatically replacing clogged catheters.
(3) Clogging of endoscopic stents necessitates their replacement in many patients with malignant obstructive jaundice and limits their use in benign strictures.
(4) The outcome is a belief that the Earth is being slowly strangled by a gaudy coat of impermeable plastic waste that collects in great floating islands in the world's oceans; clogs up canals and rivers; and is swallowed by animals, birds and sea creatures.
(5) Indeed, while people might be annoyed or alarmed at the idea of being given placebos, medics probably wouldn't need to were it not for the modern blight of the Worried Well clogging up consulting rooms.
(6) Malfunctioning of the balloon was due to leakage in 12 cases and to clogging of the inflation catheter in three cases.
(7) The clogged sewage drains, road-side garbage dumps and unplanned industrial waste management pose severe health hazards.
(8) It’s no stretch to anticipate, should Obamacare go, a return to emergency rooms clogged with patients using them for primary care, healthcare costs again creeping up and lower wage earners going without care because it’s too expensive.
(9) The reasons for failure were: (1) separation of the inner PEJ tube from the outer gastrostomy tube (59%); (2) clogging (32%) due to small PEJ tube diameter; and (3) kinking and knotting (9%).
(10) It’s an indicator that you do not have good enough cycling infrastructure.” This can be seen in New York, he points out, where on busy, traffic-clogged Manhattan streets, perhaps 80% of cyclists will be male, while along the five-mile segregated cycle path that runs along the Hudson River, more than half will be women.
(11) Nobody cares about us or our families.” The doorless, green-and-yellow three-wheelers that clog Delhi’s streets were converted to compressed natural gas years ago, so they create little pollution.
(12) Factors leading to injury included rapid onset of colder temperatures, sudden reuse of snowblowers after storage for the summer, a heavy mid-week storm that created a sense of urgency to clear snow in dusky light conditions after a day at work, frustration as exit chutes became repeatedly clogged with heavy wet snow and limited operator education.
(13) It was naïve to expect to get ambitious measures through Congress in a debate clogged up with scientific detail.
(14) Older cars and diesel engines produce particulates that clog up the lungs and may enter brain tissue, and nitrogen oxides that affect breathing.
(15) At least three stretches of an expressway were clogged with cars still submerged in water and mud; in Zhaoxindian, three dozen vehicles could be seen and more were thought to be entirely covered.
(16) A clogged Dobbhoff tube ruptured while it was being flushed manually with a syringe containing normal saline under great pressure.
(17) Coaxial trocar technique (19 patients) permits initial insertion of softer and often larger catheters (9-14 French feeding tubes), which are less likely to clog or require exchange; the intragastric balloon support method facilitates trocar insertion.
(18) Blood samples from nine healthy men were studied to determine the effect of ouabain and elevated serum calcium concentration on blood viscosity, measured by a rotational viscometer, and on red cell filterability by the St George's Filtrometer, giving values for clogging particles (CP) and red cell transit time (RCTT).
(19) When it is not clogged with weekend traffic, Container – the English word is used in Arabic – is a desolate spot: a lonely stretch of asphalt, four dingy tollbooth-like structures painted white and green, a few bored Israeli soldiers with automatic rifles.
(20) Filth and smoke hangs everywhere, clogging the very soul.
Cloy
Definition:
(v. t.) To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog.
(v. t.) To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit.
(v. t.) To penetrate or pierce; to wound.
(v. t.) To spike, as a cannon.
(v. t.) To stroke with a claw.
Example Sentences:
(1) "A syrupy drizzle of prettiness covers this cloying movie," wrote the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw .
(2) On top of the succession, that child would be the first direct female link to not only the heaving emotional tsunami that was Diana, but also the cloying sense of public ownership of Diana.
(3) Some mentioned a macho, sexist culture, and others said they felt patronised by a cloying paternalism.
(4) You can structure your sweet eating so that every mouthful contains cloying pink goo.
(5) Given that what gets on my wick is precisely that kind of vacuous waffle, allow me to illuminate you all: Teavana Oprah Chai is merely vaguely spicy, very sweet tea that would be instantly forgettable if it wasn’t so queasily cloying.
(6) Many people were suspicious of this alien seed which announces itself with its all-pervasive perfume, reminiscent of honey to some, cloyingly sweet and as sickly as regurgitated baby milk to others.
(7) Still cloyingly submissive you'll be pleased to know.
(8) The word "foodie", it is true, lays claim to a kind of cloying, infantile cuteness which is in a way appropriate to its subject; but one should not allow them the rhetorical claim of harmless innocence implied.
(9) There is no need for cloying nostalgia, but let's get it in perspective.
(10) Of course, other fruit can be used in place of the rhubarb, but sharp fruits are best to avoid a cloying sweetness.
(11) The relentless barrage of wellness and self-improvement-focused tourism can border on the cloying (after a delicately-spiced breakfast of quinoa and almond milk at ChocolaTree, I find myself all but begging a waitress at a nearby downmarket diner to give me the strongest, worst-quality filter coffee she can find).
(12) The VMAs have gone from provocative and shambolic in the 80s and 90s to a cloyingly sweet, backslapping circle jerk, so Minaj’s sore-loser honesty felt refreshing.
(13) I was scheduled for an op, on the following Thursday, and allowed, with cloying reluctance, to go home.
(14) Gilbert, like Murland, wants a timely reconsideration of the facts: "In the war's immediate aftermath, it was completely understandable it should be treated as something of the greatest reverence, but 100 years on this continuing reverence has lost its original grief-laden meaning in favour of an increasingly cloying sentimentality," he said, adding: "The first world war should be considered within a chronological continuum, and not as an event outside history itself."
(15) This was a tiny inflection of independence, cloaked in cloying praise; some kind of last hurrah.
(16) And she enjoys proselytising to her fans, spreading cloying mantras through her music, onstage banter, interviews and tweets, like a bobbed Deepak Chopra for the Twilight generation.
(17) It was a cloying sense of deja vu attached to the team that finished seventh last season, 22 points off the top and drastically in need of some more dynamism.
(18) In many cases lack of street paving, insufficient water, proliferating cesspools and open sewers turned them into cloying, degrading and offensive mires.
(19) It has been tainted for ever with the cloying stain of celebrity, and the only thing tackier than being a celebrity is looking like a celebrity copycat.