clog definition

1. footwear usually with wooden soles
2. any object that acts as a hindrance or obstruction
3. a dance performed while wearing shoes with wooden soles; has heavy stamping steps
4. become or cause to become obstructed
• examples: The leaves clog our drains in the Fall
• examples: The water pipe is backed up
5. dance a clog dance
6. impede the motion of, as with a chain or a burden
• examples: horses were clogged until they were tamed
7. impede with a clog or as if with a clog
• examples: The market is being clogged by these operations
• examples: My mind is constipated today
8. coalesce or unite in a mass
• examples: Blood clots
9. fill to excess so that function is impaired
• examples: Fear clogged her mind
• examples: The story was clogged with too many details