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constipate
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb constipate has 2 senses
- constipate(v = verb.change) clog - impede with a clog or as if with a clog; "The market is being clogged by these operations"; "My mind is constipated today" is one way to slow, slow down, slow up
- constipate(v = verb.body) bind - cause to be constipated; "These foods tend to constipate you" is one way to indispose
Sample sentences:
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Derived form noun constipation1
Sample sentence:
Something ----s somebody
CIDE DICTIONARY
constipate, v. t. [L. constipatus, p. p. of constipare; con- + stipare to crowd together. See Costive.].
- To crowd or cram into a narrow compass; to press together or condense. [1913 Webster]"Of cold the property is to condense and constipate." [1913 Webster]
- To stop (a channel) by filling it, and preventing passage through it; as, to constipate the capillary vessels. [1913 Webster]
- To render costive; to cause constipation in. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
constipate, v.tr. (esp. as constipated adj.) affect with constipation.
Etymology
L constipare (as com-, stipare press)
ROGET THESAURUS
constipate
Density
VB be dense, become solid, render solid, solidify, solidate, concrete, set, take a set, consolidate, congeal, coagulate, curd, curdle, lopper, fix, clot, cake, candy, precipitate, deposit, cohere, crystallize, petrify, condense, thicken, gel, inspissate, incrassate, compress, squeeze, ram down, constipate.
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