Become or cause to become obstructed.
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1 Otherwise it could fall foul of fair trade and state aid rules.
2 He played 35 minutes Friday night despite a stretch in foul trouble.
3 Senior guard Devonte' Graham added 16 points while dealing with foul trouble.
4 Police said there was no sign of forced entry or foul play.
5 However, the Phoenix police say there were no signs of foul play.
1 Castaner announced new measures such as banning police use of the choke - hold .
2 That's so long as the federal government continues to choke our economy.
3 It was a long moment before I could choke out the words.
4 The current strategy for ending the rupee's free fall will choke growth.
5 Poultices do sometimes choke swine; tulips reduce posterity; causes leather to resist.
1 Putin, however, laced his speech with enough statistics to clog a computer.
2 And yet, Susannah saw, those cars did not clog the highway completely.
3 Pro-European parties fear the eurosceptics may try to clog up the institution.
4 Allowing the inane commentary of vested interests to clog up comment facilities.
5 Wealth may procure many pleasures to clog the soul in its journey.
1 Beijing has denied any plans to choke off shipments of the minerals.
2 Until her doubts and fears had begun to choke off her feelings.
3 You know it's worse than hell to have to choke off short.
4 Defensively, the Dolphins need to choke off the Jets' running game.
5 For instance, sharp tax hikes could choke off the nascent recovery.
1 Pro-European parties fear the eurosceptics may try to clog up the institution.
2 Allowing the inane commentary of vested interests to clog up comment facilities.
3 DoS attack will clog up the routers, slow down the transmission signal.
4 But if your coronary arteries clog up , a pacemaker won't save you.
5 They could clog up our vents, drip acid through the hull -
1 The technology was never quite able to back up the bold statement.
2 Return via the Sea Trout Inn and back up along the lane.
3 Once it powers down, wait 30 seconds and power it back up .
4 India's tax code allows authorities to go back up to seven years.
5 Story says ventilators used in ambulances could be used as back up .
1 All the blood in her body seemed to congest in her throat.
2 The effect of alcohol on the brain of an adult is to congest it finally.
3 In the coming weeks we'll have Champions League group stages to further congest the schedule.
4 They in turn activate the ovarian cells, which congest the uterine glands and lining membrane.
5 Alcohol will sometimes congest the brain of an adult under the most trying and discouraging circumstances.
6 It's like being able to add another lane to a motorway before it starts to congest .
7 If they switch operators that's not so bad, they'll go and congest someone else's network, he said.
8 The keen night air had seemed for the moment fairly to congest her lungs and render her speechless and breathless.
9 From time to time long rows of cones sprang up with apparently no other function than to congest the traffic flow.
10 As the golf cart neared the central structure, the road started to congest with a stream of jitneys, cars and cruise ship shuttles.
11 But speed was not identified as a key factor in recent crashes, and slowing trains further may congest an already beleaguered rail system, some say.
12 We want to see you wherever criminals come together and congest . " "Even if you do not have a warrant of arrest' slap them.
13 The people gathered and ate in the congested spaces about the dwelling.
14 Olga was in the music-room when the crowd had congested the hall.
15 All the other guests stand in a long congested line by themselves.
16 There remain the poorer congested areas, the docks, and the East End.
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