كظ1 كَظَّهُ, (S, K,) aor. ـُ inf. n. كَظٌّ, (S,) It (food, S, K, and in like manner drink, TA) affected him with كِظَّة, q. v.; (S,) filled him so that he could not breathe: (K:) filled him, and made him heavy. (TA.) b2:  He, or it, made him sad, or sorrowful, by reason of much eating; inf. n. كَظَّةٌ. (Lth.) b3:  He filled it (namely a skin for water or milk) so as to make it stretch. (TA.) b4:  [And hence, app.,] He made it (namely a rope) firm, or fast. (Ibn-'Abbád.) b5:  كَظَّ الغَيْظُ صَدْرَهُ [in the TA كَظَّه, which is evidently a mistranscription,] (assumed tropical:)  Wrath, or rage, filled his bosom: and الغَيْظُ ↓ إِكْتَظَّهُ signifies the same as كَظَّهُ (assumed tropical:)  [wrath, or rage, filled him]. (TA.) b6: كَظَّهُ الأَمْرُ, (S, K,) aor. ـُ inf. n. كَظٌّ (TA) and كَظَاظٌ and كَظَاظَةٌ, (K,) (tropical:)  The affair, or case, oppressed him with grief; (S, K, TA;) distressed him; (K, TA;) filled him with grief, or disquietude, or anxiety, and burdened him. (TA.) b7:  كَظَّ خَصْمَهُ (assumed tropical:)  He bridled his adversary so that he found no way of escape. (TA.) A2: See also 8.3 كَاظَّ القَوْمُ بَعْضُهُمْ بَعْضًا, inf. n. مُكَاظَّةٌ and كِظَاظٌ, (assumed tropical:)  The people, or company of men, straitened one another, or crowded together, and clave together, in the place of fight, in war; as also ↓ تكاظّوا. (TA.) كِظَاظٌ signifies [likewise] (assumed tropical:)  Long  cleaving, or holding fast, (K, TA,) notwithstanding difficulty: (TA:) and vehement striving for the mastery in war or fight; as also مُكَاظَّةٌ: (S, K:) and the latter, [or both,] (assumed tropical:)  the exceeding the ordinary bounds in enmity; as also ↓ تَكَاظٌّ. (TA.) You say, بَيْنَهْمْ كِظَاظٌ (assumed tropical:)  [Between them is vehement striving for the mastery in fight]. (S.) And it is said in a prov., لَيْسَ أَخُو الكِظَاظِ مَنْ يَسْأَمُهُ (assumed tropical:)  [He who is fitted for vehement striving for the mastery is not he who turns away from it with disgust]: meaning كَاظِّهِمْ مَا كَاظُّوكَ (assumed tropical:)  [Strive thou vehemently for the mastery with them as long as they so strive with thee]; i. e. do not thou turn away from them with disgust unless they so turn away from thee. (TA.) [Meyd relates it thus: أَخُو الكِظَاظِ مَنْ لَا يَسْأَمُهُ (assumed tropical:)  He who is fitted for vehement striving for the mastery is he who does not turn away from it with disgust.] You say also, القَوْمُ ↓ تَكَاظَّ (assumed tropical:)  The people, or company of men, exceeded the ordinary bounds in enmity. (S.) See also كِظَاظٌ below.6 تَكَاْظَّ see 3, in three places.8 اكتظّ He became filled by food so that he could not breathe, (K,) and in like manner by drink. (TA.) It is also said of the belly. (TA.) b2:  (tropical:)  It (a water-course) became straitened by the abundance of its flow of water; (S;) as also ↓ كَظَّ, [aor., accord. to general rule, كَظِّ;] (TA;) and so اكتظّ بِالمَآءِ: (K:) and اكتظّ بِثَجِيجِ المَآءِ (tropical:)  it (a valley) became filled by the rain and torrent. (TA.) [See also R. Q. 1 and 2.] b3:  اكتظّ القَوْمُ فِى المَسْجِدِ (assumed tropical:)  The people straitened, or crowded, one another in the mosque. (TA.) b4:  اكتظّهُ الغَيْظُ: see 1.R. Q. 1 كَظْكَظَ, inf. n. كَظْكَظَةٌ, It (a skin for water or milk) stretched when being filled: (Lth, K:) was seen to become even [more and more] as often as water was poured into it. (O, K.) [See also 8, and R. Q. 2.] R. Q. 2 تَكَظْكَظَ He erected himself, sitting, as often as he filled his belly, (Lth, K,) becoming  filled so that he could not breathe, (K,) after  being seen to be in a bending posture, (Lth,) while eating. (K.) b2:  It (a skin for water or milk) became filled, or full. (TA.) [See also 8, and R. Q. 1.]كَظُّ [originally an inf. n. b2:  Used as a simple subst.,] (tropical:)  Grief, or disquietude, or anxiety, that fills the bosom: so in the saying of 'Omar Ibn-'Abd-el-'Azeez, in speaking of death, وَكَظٌّ لَيْسَ كَالْكَظِّ, meaning And grief, &c., that is not like other grief, &c., but more vehement. (TA.) [See also غَنْظٌ.]A2:  It is also used as an epithet: you say رَجُلٌ كَظٌّ (tropical:)  A man whom affairs oppress, or distress, and overcome, so that he is unable to perform them. (Ibn-'Abbád, K. *) b2:  And رَجُلٌ لَظٌّ كَظٌّ (assumed tropical:)  A man, hard, or difficult, in disposition. (S, L: in some copies of the former, كَظٌّ لَظٌّ.) ISd thinks that كظّ is here an imitative sequent. (TA in art. لظ, q. v.) كِظَّةٌ Repletion, or the state of being much filled, with food or drink: (M, Mgh, * K:) and a thing that befalls (S, A, K) a man, (S,) or an animal, (A,) in consequence of impletion [or repletion] with food: (S, A, K:) pl. أَكِظَّةٌ. (TA.) Hence the trad. of En-Nakha'ee, الأَكِظَّةُ عَلَى الأَكِظَّةِ مَسْمَنَةٌ مَكْسَلَةٌ مَسْقَمَةٌ [Repletions upon repletions are causes of fattening, rendering heavy or lazy, diseasing]. (TA.) كِظَاظٌ: see 3, of which it is an inf. n. b2: Also, (assumed tropical:)  Difficulty, or distress, and fatigue, (K, TA,) in an affair, such as takes away the breath. (TA.) And (assumed tropical:)  Grief, or disquietude, or anxiety, occasioned by war, filling the heart. (L.) كَظِيظٌ A man replete with food. (Mgh.) b2: A skin for water or milk filled so as to be made to stretch; as also ↓ مَكْظُوظٌ. (TA.) b3:  (tropical:)  A man oppressed, or distressed [and overcome, (see كَظٌّ,)] by affairs, so as to be unable to perform them; as also ↓ مَكْظُوظٌ and ↓ مُكَظَّظٌ: (K:) or all these signify (tropical:)  grieved, and full of heaviness. (TA.) b4:  (assumed tropical:)  Angry, or enraged, in the most vehement degree. (TA.) A2:  A state of fulness, or impletion. (TA.) b2:  (assumed tropical:)  A mutual straitening, or crowding together. (TA.) You say, عَلَىبَابِ فُلَانٍ كَظِيظٌ (tropical:)  At the door of such a one is a crowding together. (Har, p. 341.) هٰذَا الطَّعَامُ مَكَظَّةٌ This food is a cause of indigestion, and heaviness of the stomach. (TA.) مُكَظَّظٌ: see كَظِيظٌ; the latter in two places.مَكْظُوظٌ: see كَظِيظٌ; the latter in two places.