constipate

Verb

Synonyms: clog bind

WordNet 3.0

Verb (2)

impede with a clog or as if with a clog“The market is being clogged by these operations”“My mind is constipated today”Synonyms: clog
cause to be constipated“These foods tend to constipate you”Synonyms: bind

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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.] [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]