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constricting Definition In English

0 present participle of constrict
1 to become tighter and narrower, or to make something become tighter and narrower:
- The drug causes the blood vessels to constrict.
- When you're dancing, you don't want to wear anything that constricts your movements.
- He hated wearing a tie - he felt it constricted his breathing.
2 to limit an action or behaviour:
- Too many rules had constricted her lifestyle.

One could go to the trade unions and point out that the old days of a constricting market were over.
These are therefore articulated as voiced rather than voiceless unless some contrary gesture intervenes, such as spreading apart or tightly constricting the vocal folds so as to inhibit their vibration.
Once established, the vision is rapidly lost and treatment is aimed at constricting the pupil and correcting the fundamental abnormality or at providing an alternative drainage route.
Housing conditions, too, were constricting.
Secondly, and further constricting the policy goal, tackling health inequality does not extend to bringing levels of health in the poorest groups closer to the national average.
Endothelin is a potent endothelial derived constricting factor.
This constricting view of computer networking can pervade the management of computer facilities within an organisation - limiting its possibilities and even serving as a means of oppression.
Valve 6 is normally associated with strong constriction, and usually functions as an added enhancement to other constricting valves.