Constricted - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: constrictedConstriction
The act of constricting by means of some inherent power or by movement or change in the thing itself as distinguished from compression...
Constrictive
Serving or tending to bind or constrict...
distrain
distrain [Anglo-French destreindre, literally, to constrict, force, from Old French, from Late Latin distringere to hinder, punish, from Latin, to pull in different directions, distract, from dis- apart + stringere to draw tight] vt 1 : to force or compel to satisfy an obligation by means of a distress 2 : to seize by distress compare enter vi : to levy a distress dis·train·able adj dis·train·er [-strā-nər] or dis·train·or [di-strā-nər, dis-trā-nōr] n ...
Coarctate
Pressed together closely connected applied to insects having the abdomen separated from the thorax only by a constriction...
Constrict
To draw together to render narrower or smaller to bind to cramp to contract or cause to shrink...
Constricted
Drawn together bound contracted cramped...
constricting
hindering freedom of movement...
Constrictor
That which constricts draws together or contracts...
Constringe
To dawn together to contract to force to contract itself to constrict to cause to shrink...
Moniliform
Joined or constricted at regular intervals so as to resemble a string of beads as a moniliform root a moniliform antenna See Illust of Antenna...
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