blockages

Noun

blockage (countable and uncountable, plural blockages)

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...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. Synonym of thrombosis, thromboembolism, or embolism.
   • Blockage of circulation quickly leads to ischemia.

   Synonyms:

   thrombosis, thromboembolism, or embolism

4. Synonym of constipation (“impairment of feces passage”).

   Synonyms:

   constipation