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Constipate   /kˈɑnstəpˌeɪt/   Listen
verb
Constipate  v. t.  (past & past part. constipated; pres. part. constipating)  
1.
To crowd or cram into a narrow compass; to press together or condense. (Obs.) "Of cold the property is to condense and constipate."
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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"Constipate" Quotes from Famous Books



... can take a long, long time and several bins may have to be used in tandem. Unless they are first ground or chopped very finely, larger more resistant materials like corn, Brussels sprouts, sunflower stalks, cabbage stumps, shrub prunings, etc. will "constipate" a top-loading, ...
— Organic Gardener's Composting • Steve Solomon

... 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, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... leprosy, so, on the contrary, meat too cold doth mortify and chill the blood. Our meat should not be over sharp, because it wastes the constitution; too much sauce doth burn the entrails, and inclineth to too often drinking; raw meat doth the same; and over sweet meats to constipate ...
— The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher • Anonymous



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