blockage
Collocations
5(noun.)
ADJ
complete, total | partial
VERB + BLOCKAGE
cause, create | prevent
clear, remove
The plumber removed the blockage from the drain in less than an hour.
Definitions
noun
The state or condition of being blocked.
Only when one has seen a Control Office at first-hand does one realise the vast amount of unsparing but largely unsung work that is behind the eventual publication, perhaps, of a paragraph in this journal's "Motive Power Miscellany" recording the appearance, within hours of the complete blockage of a main line, of many of its trains, passenger and freight, on routes quite foreign to them; and of effective emergency services either side of the disaster area.
The thing that is the cause of such a state, blocking a passage.
There was a blockage in the sewer, so we called out the plumber.
Occlusion of a lumen (especially that of a blood vessel or intestine), or the thing that is causing it; as:
Blockage of circulation quickly leads to ischemia.
In selected cases, endovascular thrombectomy can quickly remove a blockage that pharmaceutical thrombolysis can't budge.
Occlusion of a lumen (especially that of a blood vessel or intestine), or the thing that is causing it; as:
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5Only when one has seen a Control Office at first-hand does one realise the vast amount of unsparing but largely unsung work that is behind the eventual publication, perhaps, of a paragraph in this jou
WiktionaryThere was a blockage in the sewer, so we called out the plumber.
WiktionaryBlockage of circulation quickly leads to ischemia.
WiktionaryThere is a blockage in this pipe, preventing water from entering it.
Tatoeba · #10614284This disease is particularly harmful for young children. The adult worms can live up to 2 years, so intestinal blockage can become severe in tiny tummies.
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