stopped up

Others have been stopped up on purpose with cotton balls or whatever else came to hand in an emergency after air valves stuck open.

The dam stopped up Haiti’s largest river, the Artibonite, and flooded some of the most fertile farmland in the central plateau.

“Thank you—” My nose is so stopped up, I sound funny.

In February 1968, I came down to Washington from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism to do some research, stopped up at The Post and walked out with a job.

“Most of the time whenever a toilet is stopped up, it’s within four or five feet of the toilet.”