1. constipate(v = verb.change) clog - impede with a clog or as if with a clog; "The market is being clogged by these operations"; "My mind is constipated today"
is one way to slow, slow down, slow up
Sample sentences:
Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something
2. constipate(v = verb.body) bind - cause to be constipated; "These foods tend to constipate you"
is one way to indispose
Derived form noun constipation1
Sample sentences:
Something ----s somebody
1. To crowd or cram into a narrow compass; to press together or condense. [1913 Webster]
"Of cold the property is to condense and constipate." [1913 Webster]
2. To stop (a channel) by filling it, and preventing passage through it; as, to constipate the capillary vessels. [1913 Webster]
3. To render costive; to cause constipation in. [1913 Webster]
constipate, v.tr. (esp. as constipated adj.) affect with constipation.
Etymology:
L constipare (as com-, stipare press)
VB be dense, become solid, render solid, solidify, solidate, concrete, set, take a set, consolidate, congeal, coagulate, curd, curdle, lopper, fix, clot, cake, candy, precipitate, deposit, cohere, crystallize, petrify, condense, thicken, gel, inspissate, incrassate, compress, squeeze, ram down, constipate.