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Definition of Constipate
1. Verb. Impede with a clog or as if with a clog. "My mind is constipated today"
2. Verb. Cause to be constipated. "These foods tend to constipate you"
Generic synonyms: Indispose
Specialized synonyms: Obstipate
Derivative terms: Constipation
Definition of Constipate
1. v. t. To crowd or cram into a narrow compass; to press together or condense.
Definition of Constipate
1. Verb. To cause constipation in. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Constipate
1. [v -PATED, -PATING, -PATES]
Medical Definition of Constipate
1. To cause constipation. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Constipate
Literary usage of Constipate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical therapeutics by Edward John Waring (1874)
"soluble in the gastric juice ; its action is rapid, it produces no sensation of
weight in the stomach, rarely constipate?, colors the stools hiss than the ..."
2. The Hahnemannian Monthly (1896)
"The tincture of opium will control the sweating but it will certainly constipate,
as I have observed. I know of a case of profuse sweating in an opium eater ..."
3. King's American Dispensatory by John King, Harvey Wickes Felter, John Uri Lloyd (1905)
"This agent was thought to be more soluble in the gastric fluids, and less liable
to color the stools and to constipate, and was therefore introduced to take ..."
4. Lectures on the diseases of women by Charles West (1867)
"Belladonna does not constipate, but it occasions headache, and if given in doses
sufficiently large to control the pain of cancer, it is sometimes followed ..."
5. The British Journal of Homoeopathy edited by John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell (1881)
"Action on the bowels: the larger doses constipate the bowels; the smaller ones
relax them. Ricinus communis. Action on the bowels: the larger doses of ..."
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