congestion

Language: en

🇺🇸 /kəˈndʒɛstʃən/

📖 Definitions

  1. noun
    An excessive accumulation or overcrowding, especially of traffic, people, or things in a confined space.; An abnormal accumulation of blood or other fluid in a body part or organ, often causing swelling.; The state of being blocked or obstructed, as in nasal passages due to illness.; Overloading of a network or system with more data or requests than it can handle.

🔗 Details

Word forms

uncountable

Collocations

traffic congestionnasal congestioncongestion chargecongestion pricingrelieve congestionease congestionreduce congestion

Derivatives

congestcongestedcongestivedecongestdecongestantdecongestion

Synonyms

blockageovercrowdingcloggingjamobstructionbackup

Antonyms

flowclearance

Commonly confused

congested
EN: 'Congested' is the adjective form (e.g., 'a congested road'); 'congestion' is the noun referring to the state or condition itself.
congest
EN: 'Congest' is the verb meaning to cause blockage; 'congestion' is the resulting noun state.

Spelling tips

EN: Remember the 'g' before '-estion' and the '-tion' ending; do not write 'conjest' or 'congeston'.

💬 Examples

  1. Traffic congestion in the city center has worsened significantly.

  2. The patient was diagnosed with pulmonary congestion.

  3. She took medication to relieve her nasal congestion.

  4. Network congestion caused the video call to drop repeatedly.