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Synonyms for congest

to plug up something, as a hole, space, or container

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Synonyms for congest

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The blood congested in his eyes till they bulged, while the tears ran down his cheeks.
They congested the doorway, pushing for precedence--resolving themselves at length into a line and moving up step by step.
He saw a congested flood of wagons, trucks, cabs, vans and street cars filling the vast space where Broadway, Sixth Avenue and Thirly-fourth street cross one another as a twenty-six inch maiden fills her twenty-two inch girdle.
Nor was this the worst; for not the crew only, but, in many cases, captain and officers as well, would join in the stampede to the diggings; and we found Hobson's Bay the congested asylum of all manner of masterless and deserted vessels.
All the blood which had seemed congested somewhere below his throat rushed to his face and eyes.