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Synonyms for clogging
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Princeton's WordNet4.0 / 1 vote

  1. clogging, hindering, impeding, obstructiveadjective

    preventing movement

    "the clogging crowds of revelers overflowing into the street"

    Synonyms:
    impeding, obstructive, hindering

    Antonyms:
    permissive

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  1. List of paraphrases for "clogging":

    plugging, silting, fouling, soiling, saturation, sealing

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How to use clogging in a sentence?

  1. Edward B. Wagner:

    Stop wasting jail space on prostitutes, drug users and other victimless criminals. Even if we find it morally acceptable to imprison these people for choices they make regarding their bodies, we must realize that we simply cannot afford to continue clogging the court system and the prison system with these harmless criminals.

  2. Kristi Noem:

    This is our problem, and together, we need to get on it, it is filling our jails and prisons, clogging our court systems, and stretching our drug treatment capacity while destroying people and their families.

  3. Dileep Yavagal:

    The effort in my laboratory for the last six years has been exactly to see how one can avoid these cells clogging the blood vessels, and what we’ve proven now and published is that the dose of the cells is what matters, the side effects are dose dependent, when you lower the dose from what was used in the past, the side effect goes away.

  4. Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis:

    Our government is eager to rationalize the pension system (for example, by limiting early retirement), proceed with partial privatization of public assets, address the non-performing loans that are clogging the economy's credit circuits, create a fully independent tax commission, and boost entrepreneurship, the differences that remain concern how we understand the relationships between the various reforms and the macro environment.

  5. Charles Sorenson:

    It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.

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