Constipated

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  constipated \constipated\ adj.
     having difficult or incomplete or infrequent evacuation of
     the bowels; costive.
     [WordNet 1.5]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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     2. To stop (a channel) by filling it, and preventing passage
        through it; as, to constipate the capillary vessels.
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     3. (Med.) To render costive; to cause constipation in.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  constipated
       adj : have difficult or incomplete or infrequent evacuation of the
             bowels [ant: {unconstipated}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  22 Moby Thesaurus words for "constipated":
     blocked, bound, choked, choked up, clogged, clogged up, congested,
     costive, foul, fouled, full, infarcted, jammed, obstipated,
     obstructed, packed, plugged, plugged up, stopped, stopped up,
     stuffed, stuffed up