Definitions for congests

congests con·gest

Spelling: [kuh n-jest]
IPA: /kənˈdʒɛst/

Congests is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 245 anagrams from letters in congests (cegnosst).

Definitions for congests

verb (used with object)

  1. to fill to excess; overcrowd or overburden; clog:
  2. Pathology. to cause an unnatural accumulation of blood or other fluid in (a body part or blood vessel):
  3. Obsolete. to heap together.

verb (used without object)

  1. to become congested:

Origin of congests

1530-40; Latin congestus (past participle of congerere; see congeries), equivalent to con- con- + ges- (variant stem of gerere) + -tus pa

Examples for congests

It is an easy thing to have printed congealed for that word, and congest occurs in A Lover's Complaint.

In such cases and the countless others that congest the lists of the lower courts arguments of fact must be made.

congest′ed, affected with an unnatural accumulation of blood: overcrowded; congest′ible.

The effect of alcohol on the brain of an adult is to congest it finally.

The keen night air had seemed for the moment fairly to congest her lungs and render her speechless and breathless.

They seem to congest in the cities because the cities are necessarily their places of first arrival.

The contents of a hundred Primers rose higgledy-piggledy, to congest his mind and memory.

Word Value for congests
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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