Usually means: Impede the natural passage of stool.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. constipate: Merriam-Webster
  2. constipate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. constipate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. constipate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. constipate: Vocabulary.com
  6. constipate: Wordnik
  7. constipate: Wiktionary
  8. constipate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. constipate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. constipate: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. constipate: Dictionary.com
  12. Constipate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. constipate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. constipate: Rhymezone
  15. Constipate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. constipate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. constipate: FreeDictionary.org
  18. constipate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. constipate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. constipate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. constipate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. constipate: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Constipate: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. constipate: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (constipate)

verb:  (transitive) To cause constipation in.
verb:  (obsolete) To pack or crowd together.

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