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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
constrict
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
throat
▪ She just stared at Anneliese, her throat constricted.
▪ Lord, I screamed and ran, heart thudding, my throat so dry it constricted.
▪ Again his throat constricted, was dry.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Avoid clothing that constricts the blood circulation in your legs.
▪ The law constricts people's choices about how to educate their children.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the drive to constrict the activities of minority religions is unlikely to have the desired result.
▪ He can have anything, but chooses to constrict his life.
▪ He pushed into the dry toothless mouth that constricted like the elastic cuff of a pajama sleeve.
▪ I wanted to help him, but I felt constricted, struggling against the limitations of understanding and language.
▪ Much heat in the head with all the headaches; bursting, constricting pains.
▪ The management options for the immediate future have been considerably constricted by recent developments.
▪ The process is constricted by three factors -- population, minority distribution and simple geography.
▪ Women's clothing was, of course, constricting, doubtless an aspect of this fashion to control the body.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Constrict

Constrict \Con*strict"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Constricted; p. pr. & vb. n. Constricting.] [L. constrictus, p. p. of constringere. See Constrain.] To draw together; to render narrower or smaller; to bind; to cramp; to contract or cause to shrink.

Such things as constrict the fibers.
--Arbuthnot.

Membranous organs inclosing a cavity which their contraction serves to constrict.
--Todd & Bowman.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
constrict

early 15c., from Latin constrictus, past participle of constringere "compress" (see constrain). A direct borrowing from Latin of the same word which, via French, became constrain. Related: Constricted; constricting.

Wiktionary
constrict

vb. To narrow, especially by applying pressure.

WordNet
constrict
  1. v. squeeze or press together; "she compressed her lips"; "the spasm contracted the muscle" [syn: compress, squeeze, compact, contract, press]

  2. become tight or as if tight; "Her throat constricted" [syn: constringe, narrow]

Usage examples of "constrict".

If you have a sallow skin tone, it usually indicates that blood flow is constricted in the skin and also in the cardiovascular system.

As the muscles in her lungs constricted, Chev could feel an urgent bubble of sound trying to push past his fingers.

She shrieked and jerked frenetically, pulling at the chains which anchored her constricted nipples, joyfully adding the pain to the fires which raged inside her.

When this dose hits your heart it will cause the coronary arteries to severely constrict, triggering what doctors would technically term a myocardial infarction or coronary occlusion, also known as a heart attack of the most devastating kind.

More perverse than Chinese foot-squeezers, the topiarists of European fashion had decreed that the elegant should have all her viscera constricted and displaced by tight lacing.

The bastions would spit round shot, musket balls and rockets down into the British who would be struggling towards the nearer breach, their approach route getting ever narrower until it was finally constricted by the vast tank of water that blocked most of the approach.

Cornered and blindsided by the low, husky voice, her throat constricted with an oppressive dread.

He can feel the icy, invisible skeletal fingers scrabbling at his brainstem again, the queasiness expanding in his gut, the conviction that a web of some constricting fabric is being woven around his heart.

My hands constricted over Tobias as she touched back a tendril of hair with a gleaming nail, unfurled her eyelashes, and tiptoed up to kiss Ben on the mouth.

However, when your voice tightens up, which part of you is usually constricted?

In doing so, he became so enchanted with this mysterious ocean of air that he would often stand on the beach at Wallops, not far from the primordial soup from which life had emerged three or four billion years ago, and watch with awe as one of his weather rockets soared into the air, bearing its precious little cargo of instruments which would send down arcane signals as to what was occurring aloft, and as it passed gradually from sight he would remain on the silent beach, imagining himself a passenger aboard that rocket, passing from cold to hot to burning hot and freezing cold, breathing normally in the first seconds, then feeling his throat constrict as oxygen became more rare, then gasping for one final breath of air that did not exist, before turning on the latest device of his imagination which would provide him with oxygen and proper pressure.

The Watchers had placed a tall post in the hole, packed in the dirt, and tied their captive to the pole, securing his wrists and his ankles so tightly the circulation was constricted.

Somewhere nearby a garrison sepoy groaned, and almost immediately he was bayoneted and Sharpe heard the hoarse exhalation of breath as the man died and the sucking sound as the murderer dragged the blade back from the constricting flesh.

Buddha's 550 lives, sermons in stone to draw the pilgrim toward enlightenment as you circumambulated the shrine through the constricting channels of the phenomenal world, rising terrace by terrace from the realm of forms suddenly, startlingly out onto the broad circular terraces at the summit, the revelation of the open sky, the liberating miracle of formlessness.

She gave a muffled cry when he entered her constricted passage, and her knuckles turned white as she gripped the basin.