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clog

/klɒɡ/
noun
  1. A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.

    "Dutch people rarely wear clogs these days."

  2. A blockage.

    "The plumber cleared the clog from the drain."

  3. A shoe of any type.

verb
  1. To block or slow passage through (often with 'up').

    "Hair is clogging the drainpipe."

  2. To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.

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

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