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constrict

/kuhn-strikt/US // kənˈstrɪkt //UK // (kənˈstrɪkt) //

压迫,缢死,缢杀,拘束

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to draw or press in; cause to contract or shrink; compress.
    • : to slow or stop the natural course or development of: Greed and aggressiveness constricted the nation's cultural life.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbinhibit
Forms: constricted, constricting

Examples

  • Leaving your noggin exposed can further constrict your body’s blood flow.

  • It faced a coronavirus-induced layoffs of 13 employees —about half of its staff — driven by abruptly constricted advertising budgets.

  • The already crimped TV advertising market further constricted in the past month, though that tightness could slacken as the fourth quarter comes to a close and inventory prices come back down to earth.

  • For the red dots, the muscle oxygen data suggests that this subject had a weak response in constricting blood flow to the muscles.

  • Pointed political debate might get removed, and free expression would be constricted.

  • I had saline mixed with Lidocaine pumped into my face to constrict my blood vessels and numb me so I could endure the zapping.

  • It twines round the stems of lofty trees, which its flattened coils gradually constrict with almost life-like cruelty!

  • By virtue of this power they are enabled to constrict many dead animal matters.

  • Cartilaginous or partially calcified biconcave vertebrae are always well developed; they constrict the notochord intervertebrally.

  • Biconcave cartilaginous vertebrae are developed, and as is the case in most fishes, constrict the notochord vertebrally.

  • (b.) Those in which he tries to constrict it, by reuniting its separated sides.