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Costive
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1. costive
retarding evacuation of feces; binding; constipating
WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.
Costive
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1.
having constipation; constipated
2.
sluggish
3.
niggardly
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Costive
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constipated or constipating
used figuratively to mean uncommunicative, stingy, etc.Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.
Costive
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1.
a. Suffering from constipation.
b. Causing constipation.
2. Slow; sluggish.
3. Stingy.
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