Etymology

From block +‎ -ageCategory:English terms suffixed with -age#BLOCKAGE.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈblɒkɪd͡ʒ/, [ˈblɒkɪd͡ʒ]Category:English 2-syllable words#BLOCKAGECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#BLOCKAGE

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    Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#BLOCKAGE
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈblɑkɪd͡ʒ/, [ˈblɑkɪd͡ʒ]Category:English 2-syllable words#BLOCKAGECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#BLOCKAGE
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈblɔkɪd͡ʒ/, [ˈblɔkɪd͡ʒ]Category:English 2-syllable words#BLOCKAGECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#BLOCKAGE
• Rhymes: -ɒkɪdʒCategory:Rhymes:English/ɒkɪdʒ#BLOCKAGECategory:Rhymes:English/ɒkɪdʒ/2 syllables#BLOCKAGE
• Hyphenation: block‧age

Noun

blockage (countable and uncountable, plural blockages)Category:English lemmas#BLOCKAGECategory:English nouns#BLOCKAGECategory:English uncountable nouns#BLOCKAGECategory:English countable nouns#BLOCKAGECategory:English countable nouns#BLOCKAGECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BLOCKAGECategory:Pages with entries#BLOCKAGECategory:Pages with 1 entry#BLOCKAGE

1. (uncountableCategory:English uncountable nouns#BLOCKAGE, countableCategory:English countable nouns#BLOCKAGE) The state or condition of being blocked.
   • 1962 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 133:

     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.

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2. (countableCategory:English countable nouns#BLOCKAGE) The thing that is the cause of such a state, blockingCategory:English links with manual fragments#BLOCKAGE a passage.

   There was a blockage in the sewer, so we called out the plumber.Category:English terms with usage examples#BLOCKAGE

3. (biologyCategory:en:Biology#BLOCKAGE, medicineCategory:en:Medicine#BLOCKAGE) Occlusion of a lumen (especially that of a blood vessel or intestine), or the thing that is causing it; as:
   1. Synonym of thrombosis, thromboembolism, or embolism.

      Blockage of circulation quickly leads to ischemia.Category:English terms with usage examples#BLOCKAGE

      In selected cases, endovascular thrombectomy can quickly remove a blockage that pharmaceutical thrombolysis can't budge.Category:English terms with usage examples#BLOCKAGE

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