"blockage" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-blockage.wav Forms: blockages [plural]
Etymology: From block + -age. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|block|age}} block + -age Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} blockage (countable and uncountable, plural blockages)
  1. (uncountable, countable) The state or condition of being blocked. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (state of being blocked): задръстване (zadrǎstvane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), блокиране (blokirane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), forstoppelse [common-gender] (Danish), esto (Finnish), Blockade [feminine] (German), Stopp [masculine] (German), Verstopfung [feminine] (German), Blockierung [feminine] (German), tilstopping [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), tilstopping [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), блок (blok) [masculine] (Russian), блокада (blokada) [feminine] (Russian), затор (zator) [masculine] (Russian), estancamiento [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-blockage-en-noun-HpkYBiDh Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -age Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -age: 10 30 30 30 Disambiguation of 'state of being blocked': 45 23 16 16
  2. (countable) The thing that is the cause of such a state, blocking a passage. Tags: countable Translations (thing blocking): пречка (prečka) [feminine] (Bulgarian), запушване (zapušvane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), este (Finnish), Hindernis [neuter] (German), φραγμός (fragmós) [masculine] (Greek), φράγμα (frágma) [neuter] (Greek), blokada [feminine] (Polish), tapón [masculine] (Spanish)
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  3. (biology, medicine) Occlusion of a lumen (especially that of a blood vessel or intestine), or the thing that is causing it; as:
    Synonym of thrombosis, synonym of thromboembolism, or synonym of embolism.
    Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Biology, Medicine Synonyms: thrombosis [synonym, synonym-of], synonym of thromboembolism [synonym, synonym-of], or synonym of embolism [synonym, synonym-of]
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  4. (biology, medicine) 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”).
    Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Biology, Medicine Synonyms: constipation [synonym, synonym-of]
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: obstruction, occlusion Derived forms: antiblockage, deblockage, preblockage, reblockage, unblockage Related terms: blockade (english: nearly synonymous, but not interchangeably; blockade usually denotes human agency)

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "state of being blocked",
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      "roman": "blok",
      "sense": "state of being blocked",
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      "sense": "thing blocking",
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