MEANING
To make or become narrower through pressure or tightening.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- constrict an airway
- a constricted passage
On the page
The swelling constricted the airway while she struggled to answer.
A coil constricted around the support until the metal began to bow.
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Word forms
- Base
- constrict
- Past tense
- constricted
- Past participle
- constricted
- Present participle
- constricting
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- constrict
- Present continuous
- am/is/are constricting
- Present perfect
- have/has constricted
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been constricting
- Past
- constricted
- Past continuous
- was/were constricting
- Past perfect
- had constricted
- Past perfect continuous
- had been constricting
- Future
- will constrict
- Future continuous
- will be constricting
- Future perfect
- will have constricted
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been constricting
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: constrict; constricts; constricted; constricted; constricting Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: constricts.
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