Definitions for congest

congest con·gest

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

Congest is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 204 anagrams from letters in congest (cegnost).

Definitions for congest

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 congest

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

Examples for congest

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for congest
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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