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Constipation

//ˌkɒnstɪˈpeɪʃən// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A state of the bowels in which the evacuations are infrequent and difficult, or the intestines become filled with hardened faeces. countable, uncountable

    "If you also knew how to combine foods—that is, what foods eaten together “set well,” you need never have indigestion, constipation or any of the headachy, stomachachy ills they lead to."

  2. 2
    the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine) wordnet
  3. 3
    The act of crowding anything into a lesser space, or the state of being crowded or pressed together; condensation. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    irregular and infrequent or difficult evacuation of the bowels; can be a symptom of intestinal obstruction or diverticulitis wordnet

Etymology

First attested in the beginning of the 15ᵗʰ century, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English constipacioun, borrowed from Medieval Latin constīpātiō or its Old French equivalent, from cōnstīpō + -tiō. By surface analysis, constipate + -ion.

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