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plugged up

plugged up is the simple past and past participle of plug up.

Meaning of plug up

Verb

plug up (third-person singular simple present plugs up, present participle plugging up, simple past and past participle plugged up)

  1. (transitive) To put a plug or bung into something; to interrupt the flow of.
    • People often flush paper towels down toilets, plugging them up; […]2019 April 25, Samanth Subramanian, “Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands”, in The Guardian
  2. (transitive) To reinforce something weak.

Adjective

plugged up (comparative more plugged up, superlative most plugged up)

  1. Clogged or otherwise blocked from flowing.

Synonyms of plugged up

Forms of plugged up

comparativemore plugged up
superlativemost plugged up

Questions about plugged up

What does plugged up mean?
Plugged up means clogged or otherwise blocked from flowing.
What is plugged up the simple past and past participle of?
Plugged up is the simple past and past participle of plug up.
What part of speech is plugged up?
Plugged up is an adjective.

Words near plugged up in the dictionary

  1. plugged in
  2. plugged into
  3. plugged nickel
  4. plugged nickels
  5. plugged out
  6. plugged up
  7. plugged-in
  8. plugger
  9. pluggers
  10. pluggery
  11. plugging

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Adapted from Wiktionary: plugged up (page history and authors); plug up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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