Definition of "stopped up" []

• (of a nose) blocked (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "It was probably another section of the mean-tempered river the winged mermaid Nepherina had warned them about, that flowed from the lake that stopped up Mount Pinatuba."
• "Later, I discovered that the waste-pipe was completely stopped up with clay."
• "No new timbers put in, as far as I could see, only stopped up and tinkered at, and covered over with sailcloth and tarpaulins and that sort of thing — an absolute fraud."