CONGEST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does congest mean? 

• CONGEST (verb)
  The verb CONGEST has 1 sense:

1. become or cause to become obstructed

  Familiarity information: CONGEST used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONGEST (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they congest    ... he / she / it congests   
Past simple: congested   
Past participle: congested   
-ing form: congesting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become or cause to become obstructed

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

back up; choke; choke off; clog; clog up; congest; foul

Context example:

The water pipe is backed up

Hypernyms (to "congest" is one way to...):

block; close up; impede; jam; obstruct; obturate; occlude (block passage through)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "congest"):

gum up (stick together as if with gum)

crap up (become obstructed or chocked up)

block; choke up; lug; stuff (obstruct)

silt; silt up (become chocked with silt)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

congestion (excessive crowding)

congestive (relating to or affected by an abnormal collection of blood or other fluid)

 Context examples 

Both of them were blue-lipped and insensible, with swollen, congested faces and protruding eyes.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But so many were the men who had rushed into the Klondike, and so many were the sweethearts, wives, and kin that had not rushed in, that the congested mail was taking on Alpine proportions; also, there were official orders.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)