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Synonyms for congestion
kənˈdʒɛs tʃəncon·ges·tion
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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
congestion
Synonyms:
congeries, accumulation, glomeration, redundancy, plethoraAntonyms:
dissipation, diffusion, clearance, evacuation, colliquation
Princeton's WordNet
congestionnoun
excessive accumulation of blood or other fluid in a body part
Synonyms:
over-crowdingcongestion, over-crowdingnoun
excessive crowding
"traffic congestion"
Synonyms:
over-crowding
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "congestion":
congested, overcrowding, crowding, waterlogging, overload, crowdedness, saturation, busy, gridlock
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#4087 | busy | |
#11475 | accumulation | |
#11728 | congestion | |
#15970 | overload | |
#16133 | redundancy | |
#16766 | saturation | |
#28706 | plethora | |
#35135 | congested | |
#39772 | crowding | |
#42763 | overcrowding | |
#48196 | gridlock | |
#158800 | waterlogging |
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We don't have the problems of congestion in the sky because we've got another axis to work with.
If you can actually reschedule cities thanks to the newfound flexibility following the pandemic there could be ... a big impact, one of the tragedies of cities in the 20th century was really having everything synchronised, so you had peak hour, rush hour, and then there was a lot of congestion.
The symptoms I did have were honestly lighter than your average cold or flu, it felt like a mild cold. I think the worst thing was probably a sore throat and some congestion. Like, that was the worst of it.
Congestion is mirroring the national trend.
It’s a really simple and obvious idea and I wish more people would do it: build more tunnels, tunnels are great. It’s just a hole in the ground, it’s not that hard. But if you have tunnels in cities you would massively alleviate congestion and you could have tunnels at all different levels; you could probably have 30 layers of tunnels and completely fix the congestion problem in high-density cities. So, I strongly recommend tunnels.
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