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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of congest.

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Examples

  • When Mr William O'Brien was labouring for the wretched "congests" in the West and founding the United Irish League to make the great final onslaught on the ramparts of landlordism, a few of us in the South were engaged unpretentiously but earnestly to get houses and allotments for the agricultural labourers, and to provide them with work on the roads during the winter months when they could not labour on the land.

    Ireland Since Parnell 1910

  • Commissioners, whilst it did not even pretend to find any remedy for the two most crying national scandals of the western "congests" and the homeless evicted tenants.

    Ireland Since Parnell 1910

  • Massaging away from the heart irritates, and further congests, the lymph nodes.

    Colds, Flu, Sweats and Vitamin C 2007

  • Some species that can be used for rapid fallowing are Flemengia congests, Desmodium gyroides, Cajanus cajan, Desmantus sp.

    Chapter 22 1992

  • Takes away their moisture, and Fills or congests its paralyzes them. blood-vessels with impure

    Object Lessons on the Human Body A Transcript of Lessons Given in the Primary Department of School No. 49, New York City Sarah F. Buckelew

  • Its consequences are not so serious as those of neurectomy, and it decongests tissues which neurectomy congests.

    Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

  • Where drainage is lacking there follows an exudation which congests the tissues surrounding the injury and all factors favoring germ growth are present.

    Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix

  • A hot pack draws the blood to the region and congests or swells the appendix all the more.

    Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies 1911

  • In that dense, pushing, alien-tongued multitude that at the noon hour congests the sidewalks of the Avenue to the south of Twenty-third Street, one may catch a glimpse of Mr. Montague Glass's

    Fifth Avenue Arthur Bartlett Maurice 1909

  • The dilettante person who tries to extract unceasing increments of intellectual or æsthetic enjoyment from books or pictures or travel, without the contribution of steady, painful intellectual effort, fails to win an intellectual life, for the mere automatic process of collecting the knowledge of others for personal consumption without striving to enlarge the general stock, congests and debilitates the mind and prevents the wholesome digestion and assimilation.

    The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production 1899

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