congested
adjective/kənˈdʒestɪd/
/kənˈdʒestɪd/
- congested (with something) crowded; full of traffic
- congested city streets
- Many of Europe's airports are heavily congested.
Extra Examples- The roads to Bordeaux were heavily congested.
- controllers trying to manage increasingly congested airports
- one of the nation's most chronically congested airports
- Traffic engineers believe that the new road could free up congested city streets.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- become
- get
- …
- chronically
- heavily
- highly
- …
- with
- (medical) (of a part of the body) blocked with blood or mucusOxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
- be
- become
- get
- …
- chronically
- heavily
- highly
- …
- with
Word Originlate Middle English (as congest in the sense ‘heap up, accumulate’): from Latin congerere ‘heap up’, from con- ‘together’ + gerere ‘bring’.
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