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Constipate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To crowd or cram into a narrow compass; to thicken or condense.

2. To stop, by filling a passage, and preventing motion; as, to constipate capillary vessels.

3. To fill or crowd the intestinal canal, and make costive.

Constipate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To crowd or cram into a narrow compass; to press together or condense.

2. To stop (a channel) by filling it, and preventing passage through it; as, to constipate the capillary vessels.

3. To render costive; to cause constipation in.

Constipated [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913