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congest
[ kuhn-jest ]
verb (used with object)
- to fill to excess; overcrowd or overburden; clog:
The subway entrance was so congested that no one could move.
- Pathology. to cause an unnatural accumulation of blood or other fluid in (a body part or blood vessel):
The cold congested her sinuses.
- Obsolete. to heap together.
verb (used without object)
- to become congested:
His throat congested with phlegm.
congest
/ kənˈdʒɛst /
verb
- to crowd or become crowded to excess; overfill
- to overload or clog (an organ or part) with blood or (of an organ or part) to become overloaded or clogged with blood
- tr; usually passive to block (the nose) with mucus
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Derived Forms
- conˈgestive, adjective
- conˈgestible, adjective
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Other Words From
- con·gesti·ble adjective
- con·gestive adjective
- noncon·gestive adjective
- precon·gested adjective
- precon·gestive adjective
- super·con·gested adjective
- uncon·gested adjective
- uncon·gestive adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of congest1
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Example Sentences
The contents of a hundred Primers rose higgledy-piggledy, to congest his mind and memory.
The keen night air had seemed for the moment fairly to congest her lungs and render her speechless and breathless.
Alcohol will sometimes congest the brain of an adult under the most trying and discouraging circumstances.
It is an easy thing to have printed congealed for that word, and congest occurs in A Lover's Complaint.
His case, with such phrases as "Supportlessly congest" well to the fore, was good.
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