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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
constipate .
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Examples
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At the other sits Zipingpu, a concrete megadam that constipates the river to generate power.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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At the other sits Zipingpu, a concrete megadam that constipates the river to generate power.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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At the other sits Zipingpu, a concrete megadam that constipates the river to generate power.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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Meanwhile, conservative "no-think" tanks were mobilized to discredit any science that constipates the Republican agenda.
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It constipates and run up all in you and locks your bowels up.
The Truth About "Nut Brackets" by Alexyss K. Tylor Karyn 2007
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Why are so many people addicted to a food that ruins the complexion, constipates the colon, makes you fat, gives you headaches, and inflates the budget?
The Tao of Health, Sex and Longevity Daniel Reid 1989
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Very often I meet with women who cannot take iron, either because it disturbs the stomach, causes headache, or constipates, or else because they have been told never to take iron.
Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria John K. [Editor] Mitchell 1871
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It astringes and constipates; hence employed in dysentery, diarrhoea, and bloody urine; the juice placed on a piece of cotton, and inserted in the nostril, will arrest hemorrhage.
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