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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Constipate \Con"sti*pate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Constipated}; p. pr & vb n. {Constipating}.] [L. constipatus p. p. of constipare; con- + stipare to crowd together. See {Costive}.] 1. To crowd or cram into a narrow compass; to press together or condense. [Obs.] Of cold the property is to condense and constipate. --Bacon. 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 From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: constipate v : cause to be constipated [syn: {bind}]
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