constipateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

The adjective is first attested circa 1425, in 中期英語, the verb in 1541; inherited from 中期英語 constipat(e) (“constipated”), borrowed Medieval Latin cōnstīpātus (“constipated”) (or through its Old French equivalent constipé), perfect passive participle of Medieval Latin cōnstīpō (“to cause constipation, to constipate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from Classical Latin cōnstīpō (“to crowd or press tightly together”) (whence obsoleted sense 2 and 3), itself from con- +‎ stīpō (“to press, cram”). Cognate with 中期英語 constipen (“to constipate”) and doublet of costive; related to stiff.

発音

• IPA: /ˈkɒnstɪˌpeɪt/

動詞

constipate (third-person singular simple present constipates, present participle constipating, simple past and past participle constipated)

1. (ambitransitive) To cause constipation in, render costive.

   The medication can constipate you if you’re not drinking enough water.

   The long hours of travel seemed to constipate his digestion.

   A lack of fiber can constipate the body, leading to discomfort.

2. (obsolete, medicine) To constrict, contract (tissues, the body, fibres, etc.); to make firm and compact by pressing together.

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3. (obsolete) To pack or crowd together.

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形容詞

constipate (comparative more constipate, superlative most constipate) (obsolete)

1. Constipated, costive.
   • 1697, Robert Peirce, Bath Memoirs, or Observations in three-and-forty years, II. i. 255:

     By […] much Sweating, the Bowels were heated, and dry'd, and rendred Constipate.

アナグラム

• copatients, spectation