Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Drawn together; compressed or contracted; straitened; cramped: as, the middle of an hour-glass is constricted.
- In entomology: Suddenly and disproportionally more slender tn any part: as, an abdomen constricted in the middle. Much more slender than the neighboring parts: as, a constricted joint of the antenna.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Drawn together; bound; contracted; cramped.
- adjective (Bot.) Contracted or compressed so as to be smaller in certain places or parts than in others.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
constrict .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective drawn together or squeezed physically or by extension psychologically
- adjective especially tense; especially in some dialects
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Examples
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Suddenly everything looked different, including our own personal dramas that often keep us stuck in constricted places and keep us from seeing the bigger picture.
Rabbi Laura Geller: Technology in Temple: Spirituality in 140 Characters or Fewer Rabbi Laura Geller 2010
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Suddenly everything looked different, including our own personal dramas that often keep us stuck in constricted places and keep us from seeing the bigger picture.
Rabbi Laura Geller: Technology in Temple: Spirituality in 140 Characters or Fewer Rabbi Laura Geller 2010
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Suddenly everything looked different, including our own personal dramas that often keep us stuck in constricted places and keep us from seeing the bigger picture.
Rabbi Laura Geller: Technology in Temple: Spirituality in 140 Characters or Fewer Rabbi Laura Geller 2010
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Is India "constricted" because we have adopted "old standards" like HTML and Unicode?
Archive 2009-07-08 Venky 2009
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Is India "constricted" because we have adopted "old standards" like HTML and Unicode?
Draft on open source standards splits IT industry: Economic Times Report Venky 2009
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The Badianus Manuscript, an indigenous herbal written in the mid-sixteenth century, recommends a strong purge for "oppression of the chest," an ailment that makes one feel "constricted" by a "certain fullness" in the chest area. 9
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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Afterward, though, as Wendell Berry noted in his 1975 essay, "The Specialization of Poetry," poets then receded into the fields, quads, and coffeehouses of an isolated and "constricted" art.
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Afterward, though, as Wendell Berry noted in his 1975 essay, "The Specialization of Poetry," poets then receded into the fields, quads, and coffeehouses of an isolated and "constricted" art.
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The prosecution lawyers objected, saying they should not be 'constricted' and that the defense would have every chance to cross-examine the witnesses anyway.
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The prosecution lawyers objected, saying they should not be 'constricted' and that the defense would have every chance to cross-examine the witnesses anyway.
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