blockage
nounUK /ˈblɒkɪd͡ʒ/ · US /ˈblɑkɪd͡ʒ/
Etymology From block + -age.
1
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
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.
› Occlusion of a lumen (especially that of a…
- Blockage of circulation quickly leads to ischemia.
- In selected cases, endovascular thrombectomy can quickly remove a blockage that pharmaceutical thrombolysis can't budge.
- Synonyms
- obstruction, occlusion, lodgment
- Derived terms
- antiblockage, deblockage, preblockage, reblockage, unblockage
- Related terms
- blockade