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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. especially tense; especially in some dialects;

2. drawn together or squeezed physically or by extension psychologically;
- Example: "a constricted blood vessel"
- Example: "a constricted view of life"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Constricted \Con*strict"ed\, a. 1. Drawn together; bound; contracted; cramped. [1913 Webster] 2. (Bot.) Contracted or compressed so as to be smaller in certain places or parts than in others. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Constrict \Con*strict"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Constricted; p. pr. & vb. n. Constricting.] [L. constrictus, p. p. of constringere. See Constrain.] To draw together; to render narrower or smaller; to bind; to cramp; to contract or cause to shrink. [1913 Webster] Such things as constrict the fibers. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster] Membranous organs inclosing a cavity which their contraction serves to constrict. --Todd & Bowman. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

constricted adj 1: especially tense; especially in some dialects 2: drawn together or squeezed physically or by extension psychologically; "a constricted blood vessel"; "a constricted view of life" [ant: unconstricted]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

92 Moby Thesaurus words for "constricted": angustifoliate, angustirostrate, angustisellate, angustiseptal, authoritarian, bigot, bigoted, blank, blind, blind-alley, borne, cecal, choked, choked off, circumscribed, clamped, close, close-fitting, closed, compressed, concentrated, condensed, confined, consolidated, contracted, cramp, cramped, creedbound, crowded, dead, dead-end, deaf, deaf to reason, fanatical, hidebound, illiberal, incapacious, incommodious, insular, isthmian, isthmic, knitted, limited, little, little-minded, meager, mean, mean-minded, mean-spirited, narrow, narrow-hearted, narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, near, nearsighted, nipped, parochial, petty, pinched, pinched-in, provincial, puckered, purblind, pursed, restricted, scant, scanty, shortsighted, shut, slender, small, small-minded, solidified, squeezed, squeezed shut, strait, straitlaced, strangled, strangulated, stuffy, tight, uncatholic, uncharitable, ungenerous, unliberal, unopen, unopened, unvented, unventilated, wasp-waisted, wrinkled