'Constipate' definitions:

Definition of 'constipate'

verb

Impede with a clog or as if with a clog; "The market is being clogged by these operations"; "My mind is constipated today" [syn: clog, constipate]

verb

Cause to be constipated; "These foods tend to constipate you" [syn: constipate, bind]

From: GCIDE

Constipate \Con"sti*pate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Constipated; p. pr. & vb. n. Constipating.] [L. constipatus, p. p. of constipare; con- + stipare to crowd together. See Costive.]
1. To crowd or cram into a narrow compass; to press together or condense. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Of cold the property is to condense and constipate. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
2. To stop (a channel) by filling it, and preventing passage through it; as, to constipate the capillary vessels. [1913 Webster]
3. (Med.) To render costive; to cause constipation in. [1913 Webster]