資料來源 : pyDict
秘結,使便秘,使遲鈍
資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Constipate \Con"sti*pate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Constipated}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Constipating}.] [L. constipatus, p. p. of
constipare; con- + stipare to crowd together. See {Costive}.]
1. To crowd or cram into a narrow compass; to press together
or condense. [Obs.]
Of cold the property is to condense and constipate.
--Bacon.
2. To stop (a channel) by filling it, and preventing passage
through it; as, to constipate the capillary vessels.
3. (Med.) To render costive; to cause constipation in.
資料來源 : WordNet®
constipate
v 1: impede with a clog or as if with a clog; "The market is
being clogged by these operations"; "My mind is
constipated today" [syn: {clog}]
2: cause to be constipated; "These foods tend to constipate
you" [syn: {bind}]