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Plug up

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Plug up"

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plugnoun(electricity) A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one.
bungnounA stopper, alternative to a cork, often made of rubber, used to prevent fluid passing through the neck of a bottle, vat, a hole in a vessel etc.
stop upverbTo fill a hole or cavity, or block (an opening or passage), as with a plug.
stopplenounA plug; a stopper.
bung upverb(British, New Zealand, of a person) To close (an opening) with a cork, cork-like object or other improvised obstruction.
cack upverb(transitive, slang) To mess up; to get seriously wrong.
chokeverb(intransitive) To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way, or fumes or particles in the air that cause the throat to constrict).
clamp offverbTo stop or restrict the flow of, with (or as if with) a clamp.
obturateverbTo block up or obstruct.
rebungnoun(transitive) To close again by means of a bung; to put the bung back in.
choke upverb(intransitive) To (temporarily) lose one's power of speech, because of strong emotion.
blocknounA substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
plug intoverbTo connect an electric device into something using a plug.
clognounA blockage.
clog upverb(transitive, idiomatic) To block something completely and physically.
obstructverbTo block or fill (a passage) with obstacles or an obstacle.
foulDishonest or not conforming to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.
occludeverb(transitive) To obstruct, cover, or otherwise block (an opening, a portion of an image, etc.).
tamponadenoun(medicine) A stoppage in the flow of blood in a vessel, caused either by the insertion of a tampon or by outside constriction.
spigotnoun(US, especially Appalachia) A water tap: a faucet or sillcock.

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