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constipated

adjective
🔊/ˈkɒnstɪpeɪtɪd/
🔊/ˈkɑːnstɪpeɪtɪd/
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  1. unable to get rid of waste material from the bowels easily便秘的
    • You should eat more fibre and fruit if you are constipated.如果您便秘，应该多吃纤维和水果。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
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    adverb
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    Word Originmid 16th cent.: from Latin constipat- ‘crowded or pressed together’, from the verb constipare, from con- ‘together’ + stipare ‘press, cram’.