congest
/kənˈd͡ʒɛst/
congest noun: a farmer whose lands do not support him adequately.
Noun
congest (plural congests)
- A farmer whose lands do not support him adequately.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:congest.
- Synonyms:
- smallholder
Verb
congest (third-person singular simple present congests, present participle congesting, simple past and past participle congested)
- To hinder or block the passage of something moving, for example a fluid, mixture, traffic, people, etc. (due to an excess of this or due to a partial or complete obstruction), resulting in overfilling or overcrowding.
- congest traffic
- congest roads
- To become blocked or obstructed
- Nasal passages can congest during a cold.
congest meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Kannada
congest in Tamil
- நெரிசல் ஏற்படுத்து, நெருக்கி அடை, திணி, கூட்டம் உண்டாக்கு, திரட்டு
congest in Urdu
- اکٹھا کرنا
congest in Bengali
- জটলা করা, ঠাসা ফেলা
congest in Kannada
- ಕಿಕ್ಕಿರಿ, ಇಡಿಕಿರಿ
More languagesFewer languages
- congest in Persian
- گرفتن
Synonyms of congest
Forms of congest
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | congests |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | congests |
| present participle | congesting |
| past participle | congested |
| past | congested |
Words formed from congest
Words that rhyme with congest
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- attest
- guest
- quest
- bequest
- distressed
- pest
- prest
- request
- revest
- west
- wrest
- zest
- contest
- depressed
- dressed
- gest
- impressed
- jest
- suggest
- acid test
- best
- celeste
- divest
- ingest
- molest
- North West
- northwest
- possessed
- pressed
- professed
- southwest
- -cest
- addressed
- behest
- compressed
- detest
- fest
- infest
- lest
- obsessed
- pretest
- processed
- repressed
- rest.
- stressed
- tressed
- unrest
- unstressed
Questions about congest
- What does congest mean?
- Congest means a farmer whose lands do not support him adequately.
- What is congest in Tamil?
- Congest in Tamil is நெரிசல் ஏற்படுத்து, நெருக்கி அடை, திணி. See Congest meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is congest?
- Congest can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce congest?
- Congest is pronounced /kənˈd͡ʒɛst/.
- What is the plural of congest?
- The plural of congest is congests.
Words near congest in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: congest (page history and authors); congest (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); congest (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); congest (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); congest (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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