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Found 3 hits - Term: constipating, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
constipate \con"stipate\, 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.
      1913 webster

            of cold the property is to condense and constipate.
                                                  --bacon.
      1913 webster

   2. to stop a channel by filling it, and preventing passage
      through it; as, to constipate the capillary vessels.
      1913 webster

   3. med. to render costive; to cause constipation in.
      1913 webster
see also:
constipated constipating costive 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
constipating \constipating\ adj.
   causing constipation.

   syn: binding.
        wordnet 1.5

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
constipating
     adj : causing constipation syn: binding
see also:
binding 

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