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Definition of Congesting
1. congest [v] - See also: congest
Lexicographical Neighbors of Congesting
Literary usage of Congesting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Therapeutics, Materia Medica, and Pharmacy: Including the Special by Samuel Otway Lewis Potter (1909)
"There is considerable evidence in support of the charge that it induces hemorrhoids
by congesting the rectal vessels. Its purgative action is milder in ..."
2. The London Medical Gazette (1848)
"The use of chloroform, in some habits and cases, must, however, be attende:!
with danger, from its immense power of congesting the lungs. ..."
3. Readings on American Federal Government by Paul Samuel Reinsch (1909)
"So it will continue under the present law, congesting at the top and congesting
at the bottom. The country fails to get from the officers of the service the ..."
4. Transactions of the International Engineering Congress, 1915 (1916)
"At each of the large terminals there should be provided a system of warehouses
where equipment can be quickly unloaded on arrival, instead of congesting ..."
5. Conservative gynecology and electro-therapeutics: A Practical Treatise on by George Betton Massey (1905)
"This desiccating action of the positive pole renders it of value in lessening
congestion and checking hemorrhage, while the congesting effect of the ..."
6. Presidential Addresses and State Papers by Theodore Roosevelt (1910)
"So it will continue under the present law, congesting at the top and congesting
at the bottom. The country fails to get from the officers of the service the ..."
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