Constipate /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Constipated; p. pr. & vb. n. Constipating

1. To crowd or cram into a narrow compass; to press together or condense. [Obs.]

   Of cold the property is to condense and constipate.

2. To stop (a channel) by filling it, and preventing passage through it; as, to constipate the capillary vessels.
3. To render costive; to cause constipation in. (Med.)