Congestion

Noun

 * 1) The act of gathering into a heap or mass; accumulation.
 * 2) An excess of traffic.
 * 3)  Overfullness of the capillary and other blood vessels, etc., in any locality or organ (often producing other morbid symptoms); local hypermic, active or passive; as, arterial congestion; venous congestion; congestion of the lungs.
 * 4)  An excess of mucus or fluid in the respiratory system; congestion of the lungs, or nasal congestion.

Adjectives for Congestion
plethoric; cerebral; abnormal; prolonged; urban; slight; permanent.

Verbs for Congestion
accumulate —; clear —; heap in —; increase —;  relieve —; — retards; — bars; — blocks; — crowds; — disorders; — hampers;  — hinders;  — impairs;  — masses; — obstructs; — overcomes; — produces; — spreads; — weakens.

Thesaurus
plethora, relative density, repletion, satiety, saturation, saturation point, sealing off, solidity, solidness, specific gravity, spissitude, spring tide, stop, stoppage, strangulation, supersaturation, surcharge, surfeit, thickness, viscidity, viscosity, viscousness, amplitude, bar, barrier, blank wall, blind alley, blind gut, block, blockade, blockage, bottleneck, cecum, choking, choking off, clog, closeness, compactness, congestedness, consistence, consistency, constipation, costiveness, crowdedness, cul-de-sac, dead end, denseness, density, embolism, embolus, engorgement, firmness, flood tide, full, fullness, gluiness, glut, gorge, hardness, high tide, high water, hyperemia, impasse, impediment, impenetrability, impermeability, impletion, imporosity, incompressibility, infarct, infarction, jam, jammedness, obstacle, obstipation, obstruction, overbrimming, overburden, overcharge, overflow, overfreight, overfullness, overload, overspill, overweight, plenitude,

Derived terms

 * congestion charge

Translations

 * Bulgarian: натрупване
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 * Bulgarian: задръстване
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