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say it: klahg
clog is a verb and noun meaning "become or cause to become obstructed". It carries 9 recorded senses.
impede the motion of, as with a chain or a burden
“horses were clogged until they were tamed”
impede with a clog or as if with a clog
“The market is being clogged by these operations”
“My mind is constipated today”
any object that acts as a hindrance or obstruction
a dance performed while wearing shoes with wooden soles; has heavy stamping steps
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for clog come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.