constrict
to draw or press in; cause to contract or shrink; compress.
to slow or stop the natural course or development of: Greed and aggressiveness constricted the nation's cultural life.
Origin of constrict
1Other words for constrict
Opposites for constrict
Other words from constrict
- non·con·strict·ed, adjective
- non·con·strict·ing, adjective
- un·con·strict·ed, adjective
- well-con·strict·ed, adjective
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How to use constrict in a sentence
The pressure against my throat seemed completely constricting.
Mailer’s Letters Pack a Punch and a Surprising Degree of Sweetness | Ronald K. Fried | December 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIf his Ethicist gig ever winds up feeling too constricting, he can always launch a column called The Sophist.
Forget the Wife Beating—Are You Ready for Some Football? | Steve Almond | September 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSome teachers initially disliked the new approach, the superintendent acknowledges, regarding it as too constricting.
How would you talk your temples into throbbing and your throat into constricting?
It is not a constricting force when properly understood and implemented.
Already the doctors drug had begun to loosen the bands of pain constricting the captains brow.
Cursed | George Allan EnglandBy constricting the ducts of the glands they diminish the secretion of those glands, because denying it an exit.
The Action of Medicines in the System | Frederick William Headland"There he comes now," David replied, his heart pounding wildly and dread constricting his throat.
The Happy End | Joseph HergesheimerBrandon's anger pounded up into his head in great waves of constricting passion.
The Cathedral | Sir Hugh WalpoleIt could coil its body around them, and crush them with the constricting power of its muscles.
The Forest Exiles | Mayne Reid
British Dictionary definitions for constrict
/ (kənˈstrɪkt) /
to make smaller or narrower, esp by contracting at one place
to hold in or inhibit; limit
Origin of constrict
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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