congestion

Main Entry:
congestion [kuhn-jes-chuhn]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: blockage
Synonyms: bottleneck, clogging, crowdedness, crowding, excess, jam, mass, overcrowding, overdevelopment, overpopulation, press, profusion, rubber-necking, snarl-up, surfeit, surplus, traffic jam
Antonyms: opening
Main Entry: fullness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: abundance, breadth
Synonyms: adequateness, ampleness, amplitude, broadness, completeness, completion, comprehensiveness, congestion, copiousness, curvaceousness, dilation, distension, enlargement, entirety, extensiveness, fill, glut, plenitude, plenty, plenum, profusion, repletion, roundness, satiation, satiety, saturation, scope, sufficiency, surfeit, swelling, totality, tumescence, vastness, voluptuousness, wealth, wholeness, wideness
Antonyms: emptiness, incompleteness, need, void, want
Main Entry: gridlock
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: traffic jam
Synonyms: barrier, blockage, bottleneck, clog, congestion, impasse, logjam, obstacle, stoppage
Main Entry: overflow
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: flood, inundation
Synonyms: advance, cataclysm, cataract, congestion, deluge, discharge, encroachment, enforcement, engorgement, excess, exuberance, flash flood, flooding, infringement, niagara, overabundance, overcrowding, overkill, overmuch, overproduction, plethora, pour, propulsion, push, redundancy, spate, spill, spillover, submergence, submersion, superfluity, surfeit, surplus, torrent
Main Entry: squeeze
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: pressure, crushing
Synonyms: clasp, clutch, congestion, crowd, crunch, crush, embrace, force, handclasp, hold, hug, influence, jam, press, restraint, squash
Antonyms: opening
Main Entry: rush hour
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: heaviest commuter traffic
Synonyms: bottleneck, congestion, gridlock, heavy traffic, jam, road rage, traffic jam
Main Entry: traffic jam
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: traffic tie-up
Synonyms: blockage, bottleneck, congestion, gridlock, jam, logjam, roadblock, rush hour, traffic congestion
Main Entry: saturation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fullness
Synonyms: congestion, engorgement, impregnation, overload, plethora, soaking, superabundance
Main Entry: satiation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fullness
Synonyms: adequateness, ampleness, amplitude, broadness, completeness, completion, comprehensiveness, congestion, copiousness, curvaceousness, dilation, distension, engorgement, enlargement, entirety, extensiveness, fill, glut, plenitude, plenty, plenum, profusion, repletion, roundness, satiety, saturation, scope, sufficiency, surfeit, swelling, totality, tumescence, vastness, voluptuousness, wealth, wholeness, wideness
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