Meaning of CONSTIPATE
| Pronunciation: | | 'kânstu`peyt
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- [v] cause to be constipated; "These foods tend to constipate you"
- [v] impede with a clog or as if with a clog; "The market is being clogged by these operations"; "My mind is constipated today"
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CONSTIPATE is a 10 letter word that starts with C. |
| | Synonyms: | | bind, clog |
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| | See Also: | | indispose, obstipate, slow, slow down, slow up | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Con"sti*pate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Constipated}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Constipating}.] [L. constipatus, p. p. of
constipare; con- + stipare to crowd together. See {Costive}.]
1. To crowd or cram into a narrow compass; to press together
or condense. [Obs.]
Of cold the property is to condense and constipate.
--Bacon.
2. To stop (a channel) by filling it, and preventing passage
through it; as, to constipate the capillary vessels.
3. (Med.) To render costive; to cause constipation in.
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