Constipate
Constipate , transitive verb
[Latin constipatus, past participle of constipare; con- + stipare to crowd together. See Costive.]
1.
To crowd or cram into a narrow compass; to press together or condense. [Obsolete]
Of cold the property is to condense and constipate.
2.
To stop (a channel) by filling it, and preventing passage through it; as, to constipate the capillary vessels.
3.
(Medicine) To render costive; to cause constipation in.