stop up

"I now put the food away when I go to bed, but in the morning I've found the towel I've used to stop up the gap is pulled out and chewed too."

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

From there, slowly pull the snake back out and throw away the hair and other gunk that was stopping up your drain.

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

In peat wetlands, inundating the land—and stopping up those weird little chimneys—has the potential to reduce so much CO2 that it would more than compensate for new methane emissions, according to Deverel.