constipate

constipate is a 10-letter English word with 5 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To crowd or cram into a narrow compass; to press together or condense. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 17 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To crowd or cram into a narrow compass; to press together or condense.
2. transitive verb. To stop (a channel) by filling it, and preventing passage through it; as, to constipate the capillary vessels.
3. transitive verb. To render costive; to cause constipation in.
4. verb. cause to be constipated

   "These foods tend to constipate you"

   Synonyms: bind

5. verb. 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

Synonyms

bind, clog

Common word forms

constipated, constipates, constipating

Words from these letters

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