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Obstipate

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To induce severe constipation through an intestinal blockage
  2. 2
    constipate severely wordnet
  3. 3
    To become or cause to become blocked up. rare

    "Noisy, stuffy men smelling of tobacco smoke, their minds obstipated by clogged presumptions !"

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin obstipātus, perfect passive participle of obstipō (“to block, stop up”), from ob- + stipō; see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

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