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Coarct

Coarct \Co*arct"\, Coarctate \Co*arc"tate\, v. t. [See Coarctate, a.]

  1. To press together; to crowd; to straiten; to confine closely. [Obs.]
    --Bacon.

  2. To restrain; to confine. [Obs.]
    --Ayliffe.

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coarct

vb. To coarctate.

Usage examples of "coarct".

All the other thetes, coarcted into the tacky little claves belonging to their synthetic phyles, turning up their own mediatrons to drown out the Senderos, setting off firecrackers or guns he could never tell them apart and a few internal-combustion hobbyists starting up their primitive full-lane vehicles, the louder the better.