constipate

Other forms of constipate

past tense

constipated·

present participle

constipating·

third person

constipates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about constipate

What does constipate mean?

constipate means "impede with a clog or as if with a clog". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in constipate?

constipate has 3 syllables: con-sti-pate. The stress falls on "con". In IPA it is /ˈkɑnstəˌpeɪt/.

What is another word for constipate?

Close synonyms include clog, bind. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is constipate a common word?

constipate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with constipate?

7 words rhyme with constipate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.