Definition of "congests" [congests]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of congest. (verb)

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• "Commissioners, whilst it did not even pretend to find any remedy for the two most crying national scandals of the western "congests" and the homeless evicted tenants."
• "When Mr William O'Brien was labouring for the wretched "congests" in the West and founding the United Irish League to make the great final onslaught on the ramparts of landlordism, a few of us in the South were engaged unpretentiously but earnestly to get houses and allotments for the agricultural labourers, and to provide them with work on the roads during the winter months when they could not labour on the land."
• "Massaging away from the heart irritates, and further congests, the lymph nodes."