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General (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. congestions: Merriam-Webster
  2. congestions: Vocabulary.com
  3. congestions: Wordnik
  4. congestions: Wiktionary
  5. congestions: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. congestions: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. congestions: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. congestions: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. congestions: Medical dictionary

(Note: See congestion as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (congestion)

noun:  The hindrance or blockage of the passage of something, 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.
noun:  An accumulation or buildup, the act of gathering into a heap or mass.
noun:  (medicine) Blocking up of the capillary and other blood vessels, etc., in any locality or organ (often producing other morbid symptoms); local hypermic, active or passive.
noun:  An excess or accumulation of something.
noun:  An excess of traffic; usually not a complete standstill of traffic, so usually not synonymous with traffic jam.
noun:  (medicine) An excess of mucus or fluid in the respiratory system; congestion of the lungs, or nasal congestion.
noun:  Edema, water retention, swelling, enlargement of a body part because of fluid retention in tissues and vessels.
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