Constrict

[kən'strɪkt]

Definition

(verb.) become tight or as if tight; 'Her throat constricted'.

Typist: Manfred--From WordNet

Definition

(v. t.) To draw together; to render narrower or smaller; to bind; to cramp; to contract or cause to shrink.

Typed by Geoffrey

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. Cramp, contract, compress.

Typist: Sean

Definition

v.t. to press together: to contract: to cramp.—p.adj. Constrict′ed narrowed: cramped: (bot.) contracted or tightened so as to be smaller in some parts than in others.—n. Constric′tion a pressing together: contraction: tightness.—adj. Constrict′ive.—n. Constrict′or that which constricts or draws together: a large serpent which crushes its prey in its folds—the Boa-constrictor (q.v.).

Checker: Thomas