Associations to the word «Congest»

Wiktionary

CONGEST, noun. (Ireland, Scotland) a tenant living on land whose resources do not support him adequately.
CONGEST, verb. To overfill or overcrowd.

Dictionary definition

CONGEST, verb. Become or cause to become obstructed; "The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"; "The water pipe is backed up".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne