About The Word Constipate
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Constipate
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What's The Definition Of Constipate?
[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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Constipate: bind | clog Related Terms | Find terms related to Constipate: See Also | indispose | obstipate | slow | slow down | slow up Constipate In Webster's Dictionary \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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