constipate

Dalia Lara often drives an hour from her Federal Way home to buy the only baby formula that doesn’t constipate her 3-month-old.

From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2022

But they also entomb vast tracts of fertile soil, constipate rivers, choke habitats and – acting as a rock-hard second skin – desensitise us from what is happening outside our urban fortresses.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 25, 2019

I would rather add some nutritious food that won’t constipate her.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2017

Critics fret that the control freakery will now constipate Whitehall: “You couldn’t blow your nose without Nick or Fi knowing,” recalls one former colleague.

From Economist ● Aug. 4, 2016

Whatever tends to constipate the bowels may be reckoned a predisposing cause.

From A Treatise on Sheep: The Best Means for their Improvement, General Management, and the Treatment of their Diseases. by Ambrose Blacklock

Caution.—If it causes oppression at the stomach, combine it with an aromatic; if it causes vomiting, give it in wine or soda water; if it purges, give opium; and if it constipates give rhubarb.

From Enquire Within Upon Everything The Great Victorian Domestic Standby by Anonymous

Very often I meet with women who cannot take iron, either because it disturbs the stomach, causes headache, or constipates, or else because they have been told never to take iron.

From Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria by John K. Mitchell

"You could run into the extremes of eating too much, where if you're not drinking enough water to hydrate and exceed the amount of soluble and insoluble fiber, you can get constipated," Lee said.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 8, 2026

When Leonidas was just a month old, he was fussy and often constipated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026

Here are some of the ways to prevent a child from becoming constipated:

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2025

“It taught you to be a lot less constipated about having a bad idea or being made fun of,” he said of his time at Esquire.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2025

At her forecastle stood a grotesque figurehead, some worm-eaten wooden eminence with a constipated look and a scroll tucked up under one arm.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

I take a pain medication that is very constipating.

From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2018

But in addition to being uncomfortably constipating, it can be toxic, even deadly, to the heart.

From New York Times ● May 10, 2016

It is constipating, so he has to take daily stool softeners.

From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2010

In other sections of the South, some top their meals with a savory tablespoon of dirt, believing that it is "good for them," despite its constipating effects.

From Time Magazine Archive

To avoid the constipating effects, I have always had mixed, before baking, one part of prepared oatmeal with two parts of flour, this compound I have found both nourishing, and regulating to the bowels.

From Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children by Pye Henry Chavasse