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1. A dance performed while wearing shoes with wooden soles; has heavy stamping steps
   - clog dance, clog dancing, clog

1. Preventing movement
   "the clogging crowds of revelers overflowing into the street";
   - hindering, impeding, obstructive

1. Become or cause to become obstructed
   "The leaves clog our drains in the Fall";
   - choke off, clog up, back up, congest, choke, foul
    
2. Impede the motion of, as with a chain or a burden
   "horses were clogged until they were tamed"
    
3. Impede with a clog or as if with a clog
   "The market is being clogged by these operations";
   - constipate
    
4. Coalesce or unite in a mass
   - clot
    
5. Fill to excess so that function is impaired
   "Fear clogged her mind"; "The story was clogged with too many details";
   - overload
    
6. (dancing) dance a clog dance

Derived forms: cloggings

See also: preventative, preventive

Type of: block, close up, coalesce, cumber [archaic], dance, encumber, fill, fill up, impede, jam, obstruct, obturate, occlude, restrain, slow, slow down, slow up, tap dance, tap dancing, trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe

Antonym: unclog

Encyclopedia: Clogging