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/kəndʒˈɛstʃən/ Listen

noun

Congestion n.

The act of gathering into a heap or mass; accumulation. (Obs.) "The congestion of dead bodies one upon another."

(Med.) Overfullness of the capillary and other blood vessels, etc., in any locality or organ (often producing other morbid symptoms); local hyperaemia, active or passive; as, arterial congestion; venous congestion; congestion of the lungs.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Congestion" Quotes from Famous Books

... during the rush season, while lake and ocean tonnage likewise were inadequate. Even the eleven million bushels of extra storage capacity being built at the lake at the time the Board was considering the situation would soon fill and overflow. Congestion at eastern transfer houses or terminal points was threatening, water freight rates were up and the export market disturbed and there was no reserve of storage capacity in Western Canada to meet emergencies. In a wet ...

— Deep Furrows • Hopkins Moorhouse

... slow familiar pain of congestion in the back of her neck came back. But she forgot the pain when the love-scene did appear, in a picture of a lake shore with a hotel porch, the flat sheen of photographed water, rushing boats, and a young ...

— The Job - An American Novel • Sinclair Lewis

... where everything is shut. No Louvre, no Carnavalet! However, the time went, chiefly over lunch, and at two we were there again, the hearthrug and I, and were shown into a waiting-room where far too many other persons had already assembled. To me this congestion seemed deplorable; but the hearthrug merely grinned. It was all a new experience to him, and his meter was registering the time. We waited, I suppose, forty minutes and then came our turn, and we were led to a little room ...

— Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 16, 1914 • Various

... said that it was congestion of the lungs. As far as he could see there was no apparent cause for it. I don't think he was very enthusiastic about the mountain air idea. The fact is he was like a good many doctors under the circumstances, noncommittal— wanted her under ...

— The War Terror • Arthur B. Reeve

... lined on the west with large and fashionable houses. The ground, then part of Hyde Park, was granted to Hamilton, Ranger of Hyde Park, 1660-84, who built a street of small houses, named Hamilton Street, a cul-de-sac. This was replaced in 1809 by a street built by the Adams. In 1871, to relieve the congestion of the traffic, the roadway was carried through the ...

— Mayfair, Belgravia, and Bayswater - The Fascination of London • Geraldine Edith Mitton

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