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| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : kuh n-jest |
| Phonetic Transcription : kənˈdʒɛst |
Définition of congest
Origin :- early 15c., "to bring together" (transitive), from Latin congestus, past participle of congerere "to bring together, pile up," from com- "together" (see com-) + gerere "to carry, perform" (see gest). Medical sense of "unnatural accumulation" (1758) led to transferred (intransitive) sense of "overcrowd" (1859). Related: Congested; congesting.
- verb clog
- The effect of alcohol on the brain of an adult is to congest it finally.
- Extract from : « Remarks » by Bill Nye
- Congest′ed, affected with an unnatural accumulation of blood: overcrowded; Congest′ible.
- Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) » by Various
- They seem to congest in the cities because the cities are necessarily their places of first arrival.
- Extract from : « Races and Immigrants in America » by John R. Commons
- In such cases and the countless others that congest the lists of the lower courts arguments of fact must be made.
- Extract from : « The Making of Arguments » by J. H. Gardiner
- The contents of a hundred Primers rose higgledy-piggledy, to congest his mind and memory.
- Extract from : « The Promise of Air » by Algernon Blackwood
- The keen night air had seemed for the moment fairly to congest her lungs and render her speechless and breathless.
- Extract from : « Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures » by Alice Emerson
- It is an easy thing to have printed congealed for that word, and congest occurs in A Lover's Complaint.
- Extract from : « Notes & Queries, No. 4, Saturday, November 24, 1849 » by Various
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