constipate

constipate is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

Definitions

  1. 1.To stop (a channel) by filling it, and preventing passage through it; as, to constipate the capillary vessels.
  2. 2.(Med.) To render costive; to cause constipation in.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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