English Dictionary

clog

/klɒɡ/

verb

To block or slow passage through (often with 'up'). / To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper. / To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.

I clog the sink with hair.

意味（1）

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

Hair is clogging the drainpipe.

意味（2）

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

The wings of winds were clogged with ice and snow.

意味（3）

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

The commodities […] are clogged with impositions.

意味（4）

(law) To enforce a mortgage lender right that prevents a borrower from exercising a right to redeem.

For centuries it has been the rule that a mortgagor’s equity of redemption cannot be clogged and that he cannot, as a part of the original mortgage transaction, cut off or surrender his right to redeem. Any agreement which does so is void and unenforceable as against public policy.

意味（5）

(intransitive) To perform a clog dance.

And in a burst of Celtic drums and fiddles, a bosomy colleen with a jaunty green hat and suit jacket riverdanced onto the stage, clogging with a surprising degree of expertise, barely restrained breasts jiggling.