Definition of Constipate

1. Verb. Impede with a clog or as if with a clog. "My mind is constipated today"

Exact synonyms: Clog
Generic synonyms: Slow, Slow Down, Slow Up

2. Verb. Cause to be constipated. "These foods tend to constipate you"
Exact synonyms: Bind
Generic synonyms: Indispose
Specialized synonyms: Obstipate
Derivative terms: Constipation

Definition of Constipate

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

Definition of Constipate

1. Verb. To cause constipation in. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Constipate

1. [v -PATED, -PATING, -PATES]

Medical Definition of Constipate

1. To cause constipation. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Constipate

constellates
constellating
constellation
constellations
constellatory
conster
constered
constering
consternate
consternated
consternates
consternating
consternation
consternations
consters
constipate (current term)
constipates
constipating
constipation
constipations
constituative promoter
constituencies
constituency
constituent
constituent(a)
constituent countries
constituent country
constituent enzyme
constituently

Literary usage of Constipate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Practical therapeutics by Edward John Waring (1874)
"soluble in the gastric juice ; its action is rapid, it produces no sensation of weight in the stomach, rarely constipate?, colors the stools hiss than the ..."

2. The Hahnemannian Monthly (1896)
"The tincture of opium will control the sweating but it will certainly constipate, as I have observed. I know of a case of profuse sweating in an opium eater ..."

3. King's American Dispensatory by John King, Harvey Wickes Felter, John Uri Lloyd (1905)
"This agent was thought to be more soluble in the gastric fluids, and less liable to color the stools and to constipate, and was therefore introduced to take ..."

4. Lectures on the diseases of women by Charles West (1867)
"Belladonna does not constipate, but it occasions headache, and if given in doses sufficiently large to control the pain of cancer, it is sometimes followed ..."

5. The British Journal of Homoeopathy edited by John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell (1881)
"Action on the bowels: the larger doses constipate the bowels; the smaller ones relax them. Ricinus communis. Action on the bowels: the larger doses of ..."

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