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Overdose vs Clog - What's the difference?

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Overdose is a related term of clog.


As nouns the difference between overdose and clog

is that overdose is an excessive and dangerous dose of a drug while clog is a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.

As verbs the difference between overdose and clog

is that overdose is to dose excessively, to take an overdose while clog is to block or slow passage through (often with 'up' ).

overdose

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An excessive and dangerous dose of a drug.
    • ''die of a heroin overdose

    Verb

    (overdos)
  • To dose excessively, to take an overdose.
    • Be careful not to overdose on those pills.
    She overdosed on cocaine.
  • To dose to excess; to give an overdose, or too many doses, to.

    • Derived terms

    * OD * overdoser

    Related terms

    * overdosage

    Anagrams

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    clog

    English

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia clog)
  • A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
    • Dutch people rarely wear clog s these days.
  • A blockage.
    • The plumber cleared the clog from the drain.
  • (UK, colloquial) A shoe of any type.
  • * 1987 , :
    • Withnail: I let him in this morning. He lost one of his clog s.
  • A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
  • * Hudibras
    • As a dog by chance breaks loose, / And quits his clog .
  • * Tennyson
    • A clog of lead was round my feet.
  • That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.
  • * Burke
    • All the ancient, honest, juridical principles and institutions of England are so many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and oppression.

    Derived terms

    * clogs to clogs in three generations * pop one's clogs

    Verb

  • To block or slow passage through (often with 'up' ).
    • Hair is clogging the drainpipe.
    The roads are clogged up with traffic.
  • To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
  • * Dryden
    • The wings of winds were clogged with ice and snow.
  • To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
  • * Addison
    • The commodities are clogged with impositions.
  • * Shakespeare
    • You'll rue the time / That clogs me with this answer.