Congestion is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CONGESTION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the state of being congested
• The act of gathering into a heap or mass; accumulation.
• Overfullness of the capillary and other blood vessels, etc., in any locality or organ (often producing other morbid symptoms); local hyper/mia, active or passive; as, arterial congestion; venous congestion; congestion of the lungs.
• excessive accumulation of blood or other fluid in a body part
• excessive crowding
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to concentrate in a small or narrow space

Words related to CONGESTION

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Words that contain CONGESTION

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How to use CONGESTION in a sentence

• One finds also sometimes a congestion in houses of dissipation and the carrying of concealed weapons.
• The night was intense and quiet, a low hum of insects giving the effect of a congestion of life.
• He will talk rapidly about congestion, long-felt wants, low efficiency, economy, and get you into his building and rebuilding schemes with the minimum of doubt and head-swimming.
• Time was when so great was the congestion in these islands, as in the Marquesas and Hawaii, that the priests and chiefs instituted devices for checking it.
• His illness began with a severe cold, but it was soon discovered that congestion of the brain had set in, and the end rapidly came.
• Not only were they compelled to live within the Pale of Settlement, but this was so reduced that abominable congestion and poverty resulted.
• There is some slight congestion of the throat as well.
• There you find a chronic congestion of the brain, that has already lasted many months, and threatens to last much longer.
• I was too ashamed to say we were retreating, and I had an eye on the congestion of the roads.
• He awoke with increased pain and a feeling of great congestion, which caused the death-perspiration to break out.
• An attack of congestion of the lungs developed consumption in his weakened constitution.
• Remedied congestion will mean increased assimilation and decreased danger.
• Sleeping on feather beds increases the local congestion, and thus favors the exciting influences of any of the above-named causes.
• Its effect is to relieve the local congestion, and thus allay the irritability of the affected parts.
• By noon on the day following the battle two thousand horses at a time were able to water comfortably, without congestion and without interfering with the work of the camels.
• Sometimes, more particularly when the railway was flooded, the congestion was so great that one tent to sixteen men was considered a liberal allowance by the authorities.
• Overwork, catching cold and excesses may produce a congestion which is one stage of inflammation.
• She was very young for so trying a disease, and after a while bronchitis set in and was followed by congestion of the lungs.
• The day after the election I returned home, and soon after fell ill with a severe attack of congestion of the lungs.
• He collapsed suddenly under a most severe attack of congestion and lay in imminent peril, devotedly nursed by his only remaining child, Mrs.
• In the North they at once met congestion in housing facilities.
• They might be due to congestion of the brain, and, if no other explanation were possible, I should incline to that view.
• The need of mutual aid among American farmers is especially great, for, as has often been, said, isolation is the problem of the farm as congestion is that of the city.
• Naturally there were many more vessels on the Atlantic side than on the Pacific side, and the greatest congestion took place at Panama.
• The vessels become rapidly dilated, their coats relax, and extreme congestion follows.
• If all the bodies that ever lived continued to exist separately after death, the congestion would be unthinkable.
• You know it is a flat, level island, chiefly formed out of the congestion of sand and soil from the sea.

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