Crossword-Solution: CONSTRICT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Constrict | v. t. | To draw together; to render narrower or smaller; to bind; to cramp; to contract or cause to shrink. |
We have 56 clues for the answer “CONSTRICT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Squeeze in one spot | 1 answer |
| Make narrower | 1 answer |
| Deprive of freedom of movement | 1 answer |
| Emulate a boa | 1 answer |
| constipate | 2 answers |
| Tighten | 7 answers |
| make smaller | 11 answers |
| inspissate | 15 answers |
| draw together | 24 answers |
| strangulate | 26 answers |
| overcrowd | 26 answers |
| Squeeze | 26 answers |
| garrotte | 29 answers |
| Condense | 31 answers |
| Throttle | 32 answers |
| congest | 33 answers |
| MAKE lean | 38 answers |
| strangle | 39 answers |
| Abridge | 41 answers |
| Concentrate | 42 answers |
| MAKE flatter | 42 answers |
| ASPHYXIATE | 43 answers |
| MAKE small | 43 answers |
| shut off | 44 answers |
| Cramp | 47 answers |
| Shrink | 48 answers |
| Muffle | 48 answers |
| smother | 48 answers |
| SUFFOCATE | 48 answers |
| Clog | 50 answers |
| Muzzle | 51 answers |
| Stifle! | 52 answers |
| compress | 52 answers |
| MAKE less flexible | 53 answers |
| envelop | 54 answers |
| MAKE firm | 54 answers |
| Extinguish | 55 answers |
| Choke | 56 answers |
| Gag | 56 answers |
| Bind | 60 answers |
| Suppress | 60 answers |
| Kill | 61 answers |
| retard | 64 answers |
| make fast | 65 answers |
| COMPACT ___ | 65 answers |
| Depress | 66 answers |
| Impede | 67 answers |
| Surround | 67 answers |
| Narrow | 68 answers |
| Obligate | 68 answers |
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with CONSTRICT (5)
Guessing that it was much lighter than that which Montgolfier had been obliged to make use of in his third-rate provincial town, Charles leagued himself with his two assistants to constrict a balloon of taffeta, twelve feet in diameter, covered with india-rubber, and to inflate it with hydrogen.
PISTHETAERUS (TO THE FLUTE-PLAYER) Enough! but, by Heracles! what is this? Great gods! I have seen many prodigious things, but I never saw a muzzled raven.(1) f(1) In allusion to the leather strap which flute-players wore to constrict the cheeks and add to the power of the breath.
But never was spun or woven silk which lay in such gracious folds, constrict though they were by the close wrappings of the mummy cloth, and fixed into hardness by the passing of thousands of years.
The snake raised its ugly head and hissed, ceasing for a moment to constrict its coils about the unfortunate man.
And yet, a twenty-foot regal python with a bad heart--like Nansen's polar bear--could easily constrict and kill any available snake of smaller size.
Quotes with CONSTRICT (3)
Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains ... an unuprooted small corner of evil. (inside every hu…
You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.
When you disrupt yourself, you are looking for growth, so if you want to muscle up a curve, you have to push and pull against objects and barriers that would constrain and constrict you. That is how you get stronger.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Three Across, USA TODAY.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2001–2008).