constipate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb impede with a clog or as if with a clog
    clog.
    • The market is being clogged by these operations
    • My mind is constipated today
  2. verb cause to be constipated
    bind.
    • These foods tend to constipate you

WordNet

Con"sti*pate transitive verb
Etymology
L. constipatus, p.p. of constipare; con- + stipare to crowd together. See Costive.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Constipated; present participle & verbal noun Constipating
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913