Definition of "congest" [con•gest]

• To overfill or overcrowd: Trucks congested the tunnel. (verb-transitive)
• Pathology To cause the accumulation of excessive blood or tissue fluid in (a vessel or organ). (verb-transitive)
• To become congested. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "They (adminstration) have to check and make sure the nominee for a postion hasn't done anything more harmful than jay walking in their entire life or ........ the American public will hear about it for at least 7 days 24/7 by pundits, newscasters, and the other idiots allowed to congest our airways."
• "Energy Transfer and Williams are fiercely competing to expand their natural-gas-distribution business at a time when vast new supplies of natural gas from rock deposits called shale are threatening to congest existing pipeline routes."
• "God forbid they aren't given the opportunity to congest the local emergency room when they get a cold or a cough."