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Constrict

To draw together; to render narrower or smaller; to bind; to cramp; to contract or cause to shrink.

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Manner of action 10

Astringe 76% connected

To bind fast; to constrict; to contract; to cause parts to draw together; to compress.

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Choke 76% connected

To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.

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Convulse 76% connected

To contract violently and irregulary, as the muscular parts of an animal body; to shake with irregular spasms, as in excessive laughter, or in agony…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Fret 76% connected

See 1st Frith.

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Gag 76% connected

To stop the mouth of, by thrusting sometimes in, so as to hinder speaking; hence, to silence by authority or by violence; not to allow freedom of spe…

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Overbear 76% connected

To bear down or carry down, as by excess of weight, power, force, etc.; to overcome; to suppress.

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Prim 76% connected

The privet.

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Scrag 76% connected

Something thin, lean, or rough; a bony piece; especially, a bony neckpiece of meat; hence, humorously or in contempt, the neck.

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Strangle 76% connected

To compress the windpipe of (a person or animal) until death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to death by compressing the throat, as wi…

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Tighten 76% connected

To draw tighter; to straiten; to make more close in any manner.

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Derivationally related 10

Coarctation 74% connected

Confinement to a narrow space.

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Coarctation 74% connected

Confinement to a narrow space.

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Compressible 74% connected

Capable of being pressed together or forced into a narrower compass, as an elastic or spongy substance.

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Compressible 74% connected

Capable of being pressed together or forced into a narrower compass, as an elastic or spongy substance.

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Compression 74% connected

The act of compressing, or state of being compressed.

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Compression 74% connected

The act of compressing, or state of being compressed.

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Compressor 74% connected

Anything which serves to compress

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Compressor 74% connected

Anything which serves to compress

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Synonym 7

Compact 92% connected

Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Compress 92% connected

To press or squeeze together; to force into a narrower compass; to reduce the volume of by pressure; to compact; to condense; as, to compress air or…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Constringe 92% connected

To dawn together; to contract; to force to contract itself; to constrict; to cause to shrink.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Contract 92% connected

To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Narrow 92% connected

Of little breadth; not wide or broad; having little distance from side to side; as, a narrow board; a narrow street; a narrow hem.

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Press 92% connected

An East Indian insectivore (Tupaia ferruginea). It is arboreal in its habits, and has a bushy tail. The fur is soft, and varies from rusty red to mar…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Squeeze 92% connected

To press between two bodies; to press together closely; to compress; often, to compress so as to expel juice, moisture, etc.; as, to squeeze an orang…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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