Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To cause constipation in.
- transitive verb To clog or make sluggish; obstruct.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To crowd or cram into a narrow compass; thicken or condense.
- To stop by filling a passage; clog.
- To fill or crowd the intestinal canal of with fecal matter; make costive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To crowd or cram into a narrow compass; to press together or condense.
- transitive verb To stop (a channel) by filling it, and preventing passage through it.
- transitive verb (Med.) To render costive; to cause constipation in.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To cause
constipation in.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb impede with a clog or as if with a clog
- verb cause to be constipated
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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, bottom-discharging composter.
Organic Gardener's Composting Steve Solomon
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Barb fretted and worried on those weekends, made special dinners that would help constipate her son, and tried to drum up a reason for her husband to run out of the house.
White Bread Jessica Anya Blau 2011
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Now all they want to do is constipate governance that in turn exacerbates the dire straight so many of our countrymen face.
Think Progress » Inhofe trying to get Bunning to end filibuster so highway funding doesn’t expire. 2010
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Now the same people who brought us 8 years of shame constipate the congress and attempt to prevent any good being accomplished even now.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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I tried substituting plantains, to constipate the little monsters, but after a week on that diet their typing slowed so much I had to change back to fruit they could more easily pass.
The Infinite Monkey Theorem Marshall Moore 2011
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Now the same people who brought us 8 years of shame constipate the congress and attempt to prevent any good being accomplished even now.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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Those large, juicy and damn near beautiful shrimp covered an a nice thick sauce and topped with enough cheese to constipate an elephant ….
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Now the same people who brought us 8 years of shame constipate the congress and attempt to prevent any good being accomplished even now.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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Now the same people who brought us 8 years of shame constipate the congress and attempt to prevent any good being accomplished even now.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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If only he does not constipate his consciousness with limited identifications, with that which he is not.
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