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/kˈɑnstəpˌeɪt/ Listen

verb

Constipate v. t. (past & past part. constipated; pres. part. constipating)

To crowd or cram into a narrow compass; to press together or condense. (Obs.) "Of cold the property is to condense and constipate."

To stop (a channel) by filling it, and preventing passage through it; as, to constipate the capillary vessels.

(Med.) To render costive; to cause constipation in.

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Etymology of 'Constipate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... solid &c adj.; solidify, solidate^; concrete, set, take a set, consolidate, congeal, coagulate; curd, curdle; lopper; fix, clot, cake, candy, precipitate, deposit, cohere, crystallize; petrify &c (harden) 323. condense, thicken, gel, inspissate^, incrassate^; compress, squeeze, ram down, constipate. Adj. dense, solid; solidified &c v.; caseous; pukka^; coherent, cohesive &c 46; compact, close, serried, thickset; substantial, massive, lumpish^; impenetrable, impermeable, nonporous, imporous^; incompressible; constipated; concrete &c (hard) 323; knotted, ...

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