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constrict, v.|kənˈstrɪkt|
[f. L. constrict- ppl. stem of constringĕre; cf. astrict, restrict. Other forms derived from the same L. verb are constrain (through Fr.), and constringe.]
1. trans. To draw together as by tightening an encircling string; to make small or narrow (a tube or orifice); to contract, compress.
1759tr. Duhamel's Husb. iii. xii. (1762) 397 More closely constricted, and thereby the juice is better strained. 1848C. Brontë J. Eyre (1857) 245 A spasm constricted her mouth for an instant. 1871G. H. Napheys Prev. & Cure Dis. 123 The neck should not be constricted by a tight collar.
fig.1854J. Martineau Stud. Chr. (1875) 19 The error deforms his faith as much as it tends to stiffen and constrict his life. 1883Pall Mall G. 28 Dec. 3/1 To seize a position which would enable them to constrict at pleasure the commerce of the Cape.
2. To cause (organic tissue) to contract or draw together; to cause to contract or shrink.
1732Arbuthnot Rules of Diet 273 Such things as constrict the Fibres. 1791Hamilton Berthollet's Dyeing I. i. i. i. 18 The pores of the stuff, opened by the heat of boiling water, and again constricted by cold. 1881B. Sanderson in Nature No. 619. 442 The influence which these [vascular nerves] transmit is here relaxing, there constricting. |