constipate

Verb

Meaning

To crowd or cram into a narrow compass; to press together or condense.

To stop (a channel) by filling it, and preventing passage through it; as, to constipate the capillary vessels.

To render costive; to cause constipation in.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

bind clog cork bung trammel cover stop block stay bound bar binding bond dam suppress
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Antonyms

free allow release advantage benefit encourage
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Hypernyms

slow slow down indispose slow up

Hyponyms

obstipate

Derivatives

constipated constipating

Anagrams

spectation

Examples

You put a disk here and then you put another disk that is a triangle at the other end and then you balance them on your finger and keep on adding. I don't use rectangles - they stop. You can use them; I have at times, but only when I want to block, to constipate movement. Alexander Calder

Bad bad people can use our shared Language and Technology for evil too, but I'm not going to constipate culture out of fear of imaginary worst-case scenarios. I'm confident much more good will come from this than bad, and that's motivation enough for me. Nina Paley

These foods tend to constipate you Source: Internet

The market is being clogged by these operations Source: Internet

My mind is constipated today Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

consternation constictic acid constimulatory constipated constipatedly constipation