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Constipate

Definition: Constipate

Constipate

Verb

1. 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: Constipate

Synonym: bind (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Constipate

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Constipate

English words defined with "constipate": bind. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Constipate

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

constipate

5

constipate food that

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Constipate

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

   

Portuguese

  

constipar. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

constipa. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

вызывать запор. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

imati konstipaciju. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

estreñir (bind). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

göra förstoppad. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

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)

   

Ukrainian

  

спричинювати запор. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

rhwymo (bandage, bind, tie). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Constipate

Derivations

Words beginning with "constipate": constipated, constipates. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Constipate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: constanate, constibate, constinate. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Constipate"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "constipate" (pronounced kÄ"nstupā't)
4-u p ā' tanticipate, dissipate, emancipate, participate, syncopate.
3-p ā' textirpate.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Constipate

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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