clog
Word family adjectivecloggedcloggynouncloggerclogginessclogdanceclog
clog1 /klɒɡ $ klɑːɡ/ (also clog up) verb (clogged, clogging) [intransitiveI, transitiveT]
PREVENTto block something or become blocked 阻塞，塞住
tourists whose cars clog the roads each summer
每年夏天开着汽车堵塞道路的游客
clog with
Over many years, the pipes had got clogged up with grease.
多年下来管道都被油污堵塞了。
—clogged adjectiveadj
clogged highways
堵塞的公路
Examples from the Corpus
clog• Magee could feel it clogging his nostrils.• The roads were more clogged than earlier in the day.• An increased number of arrests has clogged the court system.• Don't pour that grease down the drain, or the sink will clog up again.• We tend to pursue goals that weaken our will and clog up our view.• From both sides of Market, traffic will be so clogged up people will be put off...• A utilitarian concrete block clogged with book kiosks and leftist murals, it draws its 17,000 students from six northern provinces.• Electricity poles come down, telephone lines sag, and the streets become clogged with mud.
Clothes
clog2 noun [countableC usually plural] 
DCCa shoe made of wood with a leather top that covers the front of your foot but not your heel 木底鞋，木屐Examples from the Corpus
clog• They carried parasols and held them against the driving snow as they minced along in three-inch clogs.• Gene tells me that the citizens hold a tulip festival every year and that they also manufacture clogs.• I washed and combed and plaited my hair and rubbed my clogs, then I went round and knocked on the door.• On my feet are wooden clogs.• They were crisscrossed by canvas straps, were shod with hinged wooden clogs.• They march in ranks of five, in their wooden clogs.
(1500-1600) clog “to prevent an animal from moving by tying a wooden block to it” ((14-19 centuries)), from clog (noun); → CLOG2
clog2 (1400-1500) clog “wooden block” ((14-19 centuries))