Usually means: Fill or block with excess.
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  1. congest: Merriam-Webster
  2. congest: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. congest: Collins English Dictionary
  4. congest: Vocabulary.com
  5. congest: Wordnik
  6. congest: Wiktionary
  7. congest: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. congest: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. congest: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Congest, congest: Dictionary.com
  11. congest: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Congest: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. congest: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. congest: Rhymezone
  15. Congest: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. congest: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. congest: FreeDictionary.org
  18. congest: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. congest: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. congest: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. congest: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Congest: Medical dictionary

(Note: See congested as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (congest)

noun:  (Ireland, Scotland, agriculture, history) A farmer whose lands do not support him adequately.
verb:  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.

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