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Constricting   Listen
adjective
constricting  adj.  
1.
Hindering freedom of movement.
Synonyms: binding.
2.
Being reduced in width.
Synonyms: constrictive, narrowing.





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"Constricting" Quotes from Famous Books



... Heart-constricting silence, and only the breath of ether seeping out to her, sweet, insidious. She took to hugging herself violently against a sudden chill that rushed over ...
— Gaslight Sonatas • Fannie Hurst
... meatus,—any mechanical interference short of cutting with a knife only aggravates the existing difficulty, and it is not uncommon to have such cases apply for assistance after they have in vain tried to dilate the constricting preputial orifice. In the early writings of the Greeks, it is mentioned that among the Egyptians circumcision exempted them from a certain form of disease that affected the penis. Philon mentions particularly the immunity ...
— History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present - Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance • Peter Charles Remondino
... across. In the abdomen they can be reached only by incision, and two alternatives are presented: (1) To perform embryotomy and extract the fetus piecemeal, and (2) to make an incision into the abdomen and extract by the Caesarean operation, or simply to cut the constricting band and attempt ...
— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture


Words linked to "Constricting" :   constrictive, narrowing, narrow


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