constipate : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: constipate	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for constipate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
constipate v impede with a clog or as if with a clog; "The market is being clogged by these operations"; "My mind is constipated today" Synonym(s): clog, constipate cause to be constipated; "These foods tend to constipate you" Synonym(s): constipate, bind
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Constipate \Con"stipate\, 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.