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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of decongest.

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Examples

  • I'm usually pretty decongested after the sneezing fit.

    triumphant returns 0ccam 2010

  • So while we may not end this economic downturn with a slew of new parks and pools, we could end up with other unexpected benefits: for example, completely public wireless Internet access; a shorter commute on newly decongested highways; or, for those who live in cities, subway cars that aren't so crowded.

    The New New Deal 2009

  • Most central business districts were now decongested, "clean and peaceful", and crime had gone down by 25 percent.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • Some that I had seen on my previous trip had completely disappeared, others had been decongested.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com David Weiss 2011

  • Dr. Adegoroye reiterated that the FCT secondary health care facilities would be decongested because most of the common illnesses being attended to at the secondary health care institutions can be handled in the primary health care centre effectively.

    AllAfrica News: Latest 2010

  • If you come to Enugu urban you will see me; you will see me at Park-lane hospital; if your child is sick and you go to Park-lane hospital you will see Nnamani right there; if you pass through the tunnel that decongested traffic between Okpara Avenue and Ogui, you will see Nnamani.

    Thisday Online 2010

  • Taking the cue from neighbouring Pimpri-Chinchwad where three grade separators - which divide roads into higher or lower levels to ease traffic flow - have decongested roads in the

    WN.com - Articles related to Maharashtra to implement JNNURM-like scheme 2010

  • For instance, in Lagos, the Okota-Isolo-Ikotun road junction, of which traffic paralysis stretches to the Isolo-Mushin road could have long been decongested had the long-planned alternative route, from Jakande Estate to Mile 2, been executed.

    AllAfrica News: Latest 2009

  • IBM's early efforts in "smart" infrastructure technology around the world have already decongested Stockholm, improved water management in Brazil and started work on an automated power grid in Malta.

    unknown title 2009

  • IBM's early efforts in "smart" infrastructure technology around the world have already decongested Stockholm, improved water management in Brazil and started work on an automated power grid in Malta.

    unknown title 2009

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