CONSTIPATE

constipate, bind

(verb) cause to be constipated; “These foods tend to constipate you”

clog, constipate

(verb) impede with a clog or as if with a clog; “The market is being clogged by these operations”; “My mind is constipated today”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

constipate (third-person singular simple present constipates, present participle constipating, simple past and past participle constipated)

(transitive) To cause constipation in.

(obsolete) To pack or crowd together.

Anagrams

• copatients, spectation

Source: Wiktionary

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Con"sti*pate, v. t. [imp. & p.p. Constipated; p.pr. & vb.n. Constipating.] Etym: [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.)

Definition: To render costive; to cause constipation in.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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