"plug up" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "plugs up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "plugging up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "plugged up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "plugged up",
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        "past"
      ]
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      "expansion": "plug up (third-person singular simple present plugs up, present participle plugging up, simple past and past participle plugged up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2019 April 25, Samanth Subramanian, “Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "People often flush paper towels down toilets, plugging them up; […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To put a plug or bung into something; to interrupt the flow of."
      ],
      "id": "en-plug_up-en-verb-gkSJjC6W",
      "links": [
        [
          "plug",
          "plug"
        ],
        [
          "bung",
          "bung"
        ],
        [
          "flow",
          "flow"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To put a plug or bung into something; to interrupt the flow of."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "phrássō",
          "sense": "to put a plug into something",
          "word": "φράσσω"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "to put a plug into something",
          "word": "calc"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "zabítʹ",
          "sense": "to put a plug into something",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "заби́ть"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "zakúporitʹ",
          "sense": "to put a plug into something",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "заку́порить"
        }
      ]
    },
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      "glosses": [
        "To reinforce something weak."
      ],
      "id": "en-plug_up-en-verb-zVXpC8ip",
      "links": [
        [
          "reinforce",
          "reinforce"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To reinforce something weak."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "plug up"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "plugs up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "plugging up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "plugged up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "plugged up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
      "expansion": "plug up (third-person singular simple present plugs up, present participle plugging up, simple past and past participle plugged up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2019 April 25, Samanth Subramanian, “Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "People often flush paper towels down toilets, plugging them up; […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "To put a plug or bung into something; to interrupt the flow of."
      ],
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        [
          "plug",
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        ],
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          "bung",
          "bung"
        ],
        [
          "flow",
          "flow"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To put a plug or bung into something; to interrupt the flow of."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To reinforce something weak."
      ],
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          "reinforce",
          "reinforce"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To reinforce something weak."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "phrássō",
      "sense": "to put a plug into something",
      "word": "φράσσω"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "to put a plug into something",
      "word": "calc"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zabítʹ",
      "sense": "to put a plug into something",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "заби́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zakúporitʹ",
      "sense": "to put a plug into something",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "заку́порить"
    }
  ],
  "word": "plug up"
}