Blockage

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The state or condition of being blocked. countable, uncountable

    "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."

  2. 2
    the act of blocking wordnet
  3. 3
    The thing that is the cause of such a state, blocking a passage. countable

    "There was a blockage in the sewer, so we called out the plumber."

  4. 4
    an obstruction in a pipe or tube wordnet
  5. 5
    Occlusion of a lumen (especially that of a blood vessel or intestine), or the thing that is causing it; as:; Synonym of thrombosis, thromboembolism, or embolism. countable, uncountable

    "Blockage of circulation quickly leads to ischemia."

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  1. 6
    the physical condition of blocking or filling a passage with an obstruction wordnet
  2. 7
    Occlusion of a lumen (especially that of a blood vessel or intestine), or the thing that is causing it; as:; Synonym of constipation (“impairment of feces passage”). countable, uncountable

Etymology

From block + -age.

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