CONSTRICT


Meaning of CONSTRICT in English

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.

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