Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Affected with constipation.
- adjective Stiff, stodgy, or recalcitrant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Costive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective having difficult or incomplete or infrequent evacuation of the bowels; costive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Unable to
defecate . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
constipate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective have difficult or incomplete or infrequent evacuation of the bowels
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Examples
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This type of entrenched (some might call it constipated) thinking seems to permeate the large organizations that I've encountered in my life.
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This type of entrenched (some might call it constipated) thinking seems to permeate the large organizations that I've encountered in my life.
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This type of entrenched (some might call it constipated) thinking seems to permeate the large organizations that I've encountered in my life.
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The nurses would let a man remain constipated for a week on end, and they seldom washed those who were too weak to wash themselves.
Homage to Catalonia 1938
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General comments: bee said ... the lady has a great voice. why are there so many sourpuss faces in the audience? most of them look constipated. is it illegal to smile or appear to be enjoying oneself?
I am floored by Onnondonnu Chernnadi ~~ Anjali 2009
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In this form of indigestion the bowels are often much constipated, which is usually only a more marked symptom of chronic constipation.
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"The Senate at the moment could be politely described as constipated," he said.
iTnews Australia 2010
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Like Jeezy, he is known for his ad-libs (Giggs's most famous example can only be described as a constipated grunt) and his extremely laidback flow.
Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk 2009
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The vocals come off as a kind of constipated struggle to squeeze out some simulacrum of sincerity.
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It loses whenever it's "constipated" (love that analogy) with orthodoxies.
chained_bear commented on the word constipated
In tiddlywinks, "a tactical situation in which all winks of a color (or a partnership, or all players) are busy squopping other winks and sometimes busy protecting piles."
August 27, 2008
reesetee commented on the word constipated
Oh my.
Actually, I sometimes use this to describe the traffic situation around here at rush hour.
August 27, 2008