Dictionary

blockage en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• [ˈblɑkɪd͡ʒ] (General-American)
• /ˈblɑkɪd͡ʒ/ (General-American)
• /ˈblɒkɪd͡ʒ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈblɔkɪd͡ʒ/ (Australia)
• [ˈblɒkɪd͡ʒ] (Received-Pronunciation)
• [ˈblɔkɪd͡ʒ] (Australia)
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Etymology

Etymology tree English block Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Old French -agebor. Middle English -age English -age English blockage From block + -age.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The state or condition of being blocked.
   • 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. 1962 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 133:
2. (countable) The thing that is the cause of such a state, blocking a passage.
   • There was a blockage in the sewer, so we called out the plumber.
3. (countable, uncountable) 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.
   • Blockage of circulation quickly leads to ischemia.
   • In selected cases, endovascular thrombectomy can quickly remove a blockage that pharmaceutical thrombolysis can't budge.
4. (countable, uncountable) 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”).

Forms

Deriveds

cloggage · preblockage · deblockage · antiblockage · reblockage · unblockage

Relateds

blockade

Synonyms

constipation · thrombosis · thromboembolism · occlusion · or embolism · lodgment · obstruction

Translations (31)

pl blokada (thing blocking) · da forstoppelse (state of being blocked) · es asolvamiento (state of being blocked) · es azolve (thing blocking) · es atoramiento (state of being blocked) · es tapón (thing blocking) · es estancamiento (state of being blocked) · ru блокада (state of being blocked) · bg запушване (thing blocking) · de Blockade (state of being blocked) · fi este (thing blocking) · es azolvamiento (state of being blocked) · es atasco (state of being blocked) · es opilación (thing blocking) · nb tilstopping (state of being blocked) · bg блокиране (state of being blocked) · bg задръстване (state of being blocked) · fi esto (state of being blocked) · de Blockierung (state of being blocked) · de Verstopfung (state of being blocked) · bg пречка (thing blocking) · es obturación (state of being blocked) · de Hindernis (thing blocking) · es atoro (state of being blocked) · ru затор (state of being blocked) · es atasco (thing blocking) · nn tilstopping (state of being blocked) · ru блок (state of being blocked) · el φράγμα (thing blocking) · el φραγμός (thing blocking) · de Stopp (state of being blocked)