congestee

congestee

English

Etymology

    From congest + -ee.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /kɒn.d͡ʒɛstˈiː/

    Noun

    congestee (plural congestees)

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