jam up
Frequency: 6.06.8 per million words
to cause something to become blocked or to become blocked
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Examples (10)
- The traffic will just jam up our village.
- The printer tends to jam up if you don't load the paper correctly.
- Too many applications running at once can jam up your computer's memory.
- The narrow streets quickly jam up during rush hour.
- A fallen tree branch can jam up the gears of the old machinery.
- He was worried that the sudden influx of orders would jam up their production line.
- Make sure not to overfill the shredder, or it will jam up.
- The old pipe has started to jam up with rust and debris.
- If everyone tries to exit at once, it will jam up the doorway.
- The bad weather caused several flights to jam up the airport schedule.