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Congest

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To overfill or overcrowd: Trucks congested the tunnel.

v. Pathology To cause the accumulation of excessive blood or tissue fluid in (a vessel or organ).

verb-intransitive. To become congested.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. In Ireland and Scotland, a tenant living on land whose resources do not support him adequately.

v. To overfill or overcrowd.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To collect or gather into a mass or aggregate; to bring together; to accumulate.

v. To cause an overfullness of the blood vessels (esp. the capillaries) of an organ or part.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To collect or gather into a mass or aggregate; heap together. See congested.

In medicine, to cause an unnatural accumulation of blood in: as, the lungs may be congested by cold.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. become or cause to become obstructed

Word Usage

"Energy Transfer and Williams are fiercely competing to expand their natural-gas-distribution business at a time when vast new supplies of natural gas from rock deposits called shale are threatening to congest existing pipeline routes."

Verb Form

congested congesting congests

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

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Hyponym

stuff crap up choke up block silt

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

accumulate collect

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

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