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congestee en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /kɒn.d͡ʒɛstˈiː/

Etymology

From congest + -ee.

Meanings

1. A person living in an area with a very high-density population.
   • See “Tombstone” in chap — the parking problems and congestee. 2003, Karl Samson et al., Frommer’s « American Southwest, page 1:
   • …the once united tenant movement dissolved into a series of competing subgroups (graziers and congestees, purchased and unpurchased). 2005, Fergus J M Campbell, Land and Revolution: Nationalist Politics in the West of Ireland 1891–1921, page 289:
2. A thing congested to the point of malfunction.
   • …based on respiratory effects, specifically, vascular congestion, peribronchiolar edema, hemorrhagic alveoli, and congestee capillaries in the lungs (IRIS). 1998, United States Congress et al., Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies, Appropriations for 1999, page 464:

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