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21choke off — verb 1. suppress (Freq. 2) He choked down his rage • Syn: ↑choke down, ↑choke back • Hypernyms: ↑suppress, ↑stamp down, ↑inhibit, ↑ …
22clog up — verb become or cause to become obstructed The leaves clog our drains in the Fall The water pipe is backed up • Syn: ↑clog, ↑choke off, ↑back up, ↑congest, ↑choke, ↑foul …
23fill — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. complete, load, pervade, permeate; plug, cork; occupy, serve well, satisfy; carry out. See layer, sufficiency, presence, closure, business. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. enough, capacity, satiety; see… …
24glut — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. stuff, cram, choke, pack, jam. n. surplus, surfeit, plethora, saturation, satiety, redundance. See sufficiency. Ant., dearth. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. oversupply, overabundance, excess; see excess 1 .… …
25gestation — [16] Etymologically, gestation is the period during which unborn young is ‘carried’ inside the womb. Indeed, to begin with the word meant simply ‘carrying’ in English (‘Gestacion, that is to be carried of another thing, without any travail of the …
26register — [14] Register comes via Old French registre from late Latin regestum ‘list’. This was a noun use of the past participle of regerere ‘bring back’, hence ‘set down, record’, a compound verb formed from the prefix re ‘back, again’ and gerere ‘bring …
27congeries — (n.) 1610s, from L. congeries heap, pile, collected mass, from congerere to carry together (see CONGEST (Cf. congest)). False singular congery is from 1866. Man should have some sense of responsibility to the human congeries. As a matter of… …
28congested — 1570s, heaped up, pp. adj. from CONGEST (Cf. congest). Meaning overcrowded is recorded from 1862 …
29congestion — early 15c., action of gathering together, from M.Fr. congestion (14c.), from L. congestionem (nom. congestio), noun of action from pp. stem of congerere (see CONGEST (Cf. congest)). Medical sense is from 1630s; meaning a crowding together of… …
30congestive — 1846, from CONGEST (Cf. congest) + IVE (Cf. ive). Congestive heart failure is recorded from 1928 …
