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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
angustifoliate, angustirostrate, angustisellate, angustiseptal, authoritarian, bigot, bigoted, blank, blind, blind-alley, borne, cecal, choked, choked off, circumscribed, clamped, close, close-fitting, closed, compressed, concentrated, condensed, confined, consolidated, contracted, cramp, cramped, creedbound, crowded, dead, dead-end, deaf, deaf to reason, fanatical, hidebound, illiberal, incapacious, incommodious, insular, isthmian, isthmic, knitted, limited, little, little-minded, meager, mean, mean-minded, mean-spirited, narrow, narrow-hearted, narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, near, nearsighted, nipped, parochial, petty, pinched, pinched-in, provincial, puckered, purblind, pursed, restricted, scant, scanty, shortsighted, shut, slender, small, small-minded, solidified, squeezed, squeezed shut, strait, straitlaced, strangled, strangulated, stuffy, tight, uncatholic, uncharitable, ungenerous, unliberal, unopen, unopened, unvented, unventilated, wasp-waisted, wrinkled
Dictionary Results for constricted:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
constricted
    adj 1: especially tense; especially in some dialects
    2: drawn together or squeezed physically or by extension
       psychologically; "a constricted blood vessel"; "a constricted
       view of life" [ant: unconstricted]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Constricted \Con*strict"ed\, a.
   1. Drawn together; bound; contracted; cramped.
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   2. (Bot.) Contracted or compressed so as to be smaller in
      certain places or parts than in others.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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         Such things as constrict the fibers.     --Arbuthnot.
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         Membranous organs inclosing a cavity which their
         contraction serves to constrict.         --Todd &
                                                  Bowman.
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