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Constipate   Listen
verb
Constipate  v. t.  (past & past part. constipated; pres. part. constipating)  
1.
To crowd or cram into a narrow compass; to press together or condense. (Obs.) "Of cold the property is to condense and constipate."
2.
To stop (a channel) by filling it, and preventing passage through it; as, to constipate the capillary vessels.
3.
(Med.) To render costive; to cause constipation in.





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