Costive

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  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Suffering from constipation.
  • adjective. Causing constipation.
  • adjective. Slow; sluggish.
  • adjective. Stingy.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Suffering from a morbid retention of fecal matter in the bowels, in a hard and dry state; having the excrements retained, or the motion of the bowels sluggish or suppressed; constipated.
  • Figuratively, slow in action; especially, slow in giving forth ideas or opinions, etc.; uncommunicative; close; unproductive.
  • Hard and dry; caked.
  • Producing costiveness.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Retaining fecal matter in the bowels; having too slow a motion of the bowels; constipated.
  • adjective. Reserved; formal; close; cold.
  • adjective. Dry and hard; impermeable; unyielding.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. constipated
  • adjective. miserly, parsimonious
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  • adjective. retarding evacuation of feces; binding; constipating
    • Word Usage
    "And it can be costive, which is the last thing she needs with that wound in her stomach."
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    close  cold  constipate  constipated  formal  
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