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• s  (of a nose) blocked
  a stopped (or stopped-up) nose
• s  having narrow opening filled

• The cholesterol in steaks, cream, butter and especially those breakfast eggs was clogging arteries like sludge in a stopped-up drainpipe.
• Confronted by a lawn grown weedy, a kitchen reeking of rotten garbage, and a stopped-up toilet, she ignores all the signs of suburban hell and calls to Billy, "Never mind the way .
• She swigs continuously from a bottle, and her only other visible activity is carrying a plunger to a stopped-up toilet.

• stopped
• stopped up
• chinked

News & Articles

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• Low-fat, nourishing, and great for winter
  I decided that the only way to treat my stopped-up head, sniffles, scratchy throat, and general fatigue for the last two weeks was with...        
  Dec. 16, 2013 - Boston.com

Quotes

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• Ludwig van Beethoven in New York Times
  Stopped-up sluices often overflow quite suddenly,Beethoven wrote in a letter to the ever-patient Schindler.