clog intake
Frequency: 4.02.8 per million words
Refers to blocking an opening where a substance enters a machine or system.
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- Leaves and debris can easily clog the air intake of your car.
- The build-up of sediment completely clogged the water intake for the pump.
- If you don't clean it, the filter will eventually clog the intake.
- The engine's intake was clogged with dust from the desert road.
- A build-up of algae is known to clog the cooling intake on boat motors.
- We discovered that plastic fragments had clogged the machine's primary intake valve.
- Did you check to see if seaweed has clogged the boat's engine intake?
- Be careful not to clog the vacuum cleaner's intake with large objects.
- The machine will overheat if hair clogs the ventilation intake.
- The excessive pollen in the air has clogged the air conditioner's intake.