blockage
/ˈblɑkɪd͡ʒ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Occlusion of a lumen (especially that of a blood vessel or intestine), or the thing that is causing it; as:
Countable; Uncountable
noun
Occlusion of a lumen (especially that of a blood vessel or intestine), or the thing that is causing it; as:
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "There was a blockage in the sewer, so we called out the plumber."
- "Blockage of circulation quickly leads to ischemia."
- "In selected cases, endovascular thrombectomy can quickly remove a blockage that pharmaceutical thrombolysis can't budge."
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.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈblɑkɪd͡ʒ/
- British English: /ˈblɒkɪd͡ʒ/