Blockage

Quick meaning: Blockage is a noun meaning (uncountable, countable) The state or condition of being blocked.

Meaning

(uncountable, countable) The state or condition of being blocked.

More Meanings

1. (countable) The thing that is the cause of such a state, blocking a passage.
2. (biology, medicine) Occlusion of a lumen (especially that of a blood vessel or intestine), or the thing that is causing it; as:

Example Sentences

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

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.

Word Forms

• blockages

Synonyms for blockage

Depending on context, synonyms include obstruction, occlusion, block, closure, stop, stoppage.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include stoppage, stop, occlusion, closure, block, clogged.

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