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Definition: Constipate |
ConstipateVerb1. Cause to be constipated; "These foods tend to constipate you". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Constipate \Con"sti*pate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Constipated; present participle verb or noun Constipating.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: ConstipateSynonym: bind (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Density | Condense, thicken, gel, inspissate, incrassate; compress, squeeze, ram down, constipate. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Constipate |
| English words defined with "constipate": bind. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
constipate | 5 |
constipate food that | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "constipate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | bëj kaps. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قبض الامعاء وأصابها بالامساك, أصاب المعدة بامساك. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | запичам (bake). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | ucpat (block, block up, choke up, jam, jam up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | stoppen (block, cease, clog, come to a halt, fill, fill in, fill up, halt, lay down, mend, patch, patch up, place, plug up, put, put down, stop, stop up), constipatie veroorzaken. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | konstipi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | یبوست دادن , خشکی اوردن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | constiper. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | stopfen (be filling, block, bolt down one's food, bundle, clog, Cork, cram, darn, darning, fill, jam, jam in, mend, mute, pack, plug, plug up, ram, stop, stop up, stopper, stuff, stuff oneself, to darn, wad). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κάνω δυσκοίλιο, προκαλώ δυσκοιλιότητα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל'רום לעצירות. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | székrekedést okoz (to constipate, to obstruct), összetömörít (compact, mass, to aggregate, to ball). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | sukar buang air. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | costipare. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | kiangley (anchoring, anchoring building, article, article to trade, attach, band, bandage, bandaging, belay, bend, bind, bind down, binding, bond, bow knot, bundle, compress, condition, condition terms, connect, constrain, dress, dressing, envoy, envoy of poem, fasten down, fastening, influence, involvement, juncture, link, lock, lock in, locking, make fast, nexus, obligation, pin, pinion, relationship, retain, retention, secure, shackle, stipulation, tether, tie, tie down, tie on, tie up, tying, vinculum), jannoo tartagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | forstoppe. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onstipatecay constipar. (various references) constipa. (various references) вызывать запор. (various references) imati konstipaciju. (various references) estreñir (bind). (various references) göra förstoppad. (various references) sıkmak (ail, bore, bother, Chevy, chivvy, chivy, clench, constrict, crush, cumber, depress, distress, extrude, give the willies, grip, harass, hatchel, hold tight, incommode, irk, jam, load, make fast, mope, oppress, pinch, press, pressurize, pull on, ream, ream out, squeeze, straiten, strangulate, tighten), kabız etmek. (various references) спричинювати запор. (various references) rhwymo (bandage, bind, tie). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "constipate": constipated, constipates. (additional references) | |
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"Constipate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: constanate, constibate, constinate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "constipate" (pronounced kÄ"nstupā't) |
| 4 | -u p ā' t | anticipate, dissipate, emancipate, participate, syncopate. |
| 3 | -p ā' t | extirpate. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-n-o-p-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: pittances, taconites. | |
-2 letters: aconites, canoeist, canopies, capstone, captions, ectopias, entastic, nepotist, nictates, opencast, oscitant, pactions, patients, pittance, saponite, sonicate, stenotic, taconite, tactions, tetanics, tonetics. | |
-3 letters: acetins, acinose, aconite, actions, antipot, apnoeic, aseptic, atonics, atonies, atopies, capotes, caption, cations, catnips, catties, cineast, contest, costate, ectopia, entopic, epinaos, incepts, inscape, inspect, instate, nepotic, nictate, notates. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-n-o-p-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: constipated, constipates. | |
+2 letters: acceptations, crepitations, expectations, inspectorate, pectinations, pontificates, postaccident, stupefaction. | |
+3 letters: conceptualist, decapitations, inspectorates, neoplasticist, petrifactions, placentations, practitioners, privatdocents, procrastinate, prognosticate, putrefactions, stupefactions, trichopterans. | |
+4 letters: antineoplastic, conceptualists, containerports, contemplations, contemplatives, contraceptions, contraceptives, contrapositive, cooperationist, decrepitations, expectorations, hypothecations, neoplasticists, petrifications, photoreactions, precipitations, procrastinated, procrastinates, prognosticated, prognosticates, recomputations, repunctuations. | |
+5 letters: antispeculation, conceptualistic, conceptualities, contrapositives, cooperationists, emancipationist, eutrophications, introspectional, pathogenicities, pithecanthropus, prettifications, prognosticative, recapitulations, unsophisticated. | |
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