
1) Binding 2) Constipated 3) Constipating 4) French word used in English 5) Retarding evacuation of feces 6) Slow to react 7) Stingy 8) Suffering from constipation 9) Tight-fisted
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1) Constipating
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affected with or causing constipation
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• (a.) Retaining fecal matter in the bowels; having too slow a motion of the bowels; constipated. • (a.) Dry and hard; impermeable; unyielding. • (a.) Reserved; formal; close; cold.
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Pertaining to or causing constipation. ... Origin: contraction from L. Constipo, to press together ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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Constipated; elsewhere may mean reticent, slow, niggardly, etc
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Cos'tive adjective [ Old French costevé , past participle of costever , French constiper , Latin constipare to press closely together, to cram; con- + stipare to press together, cram. See Stipulate , Stiff , and confer Constipate .]
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Type: Term Pronunciation: kos′tiv Definitions: 1. Pertaining to or causing constipation.
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[
adj] - retarding evacuation of feces
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adjective retarding evacuation of feces
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suffering from constipation; constipated. · slow in action or in expressing ideas, opinions, etc. · stingy; tight-fisted.
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