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coarctate

 : 
Adjective
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective coarctate has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

coarctatev. t. [See Coarctate, a.].
  •  To press together; to crowd; to straiten; to confine closely.  Bacon.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To restrain; to confine.  Ayliffe.  [1913 Webster]
coarctatea. [L. coarctatus, p. p. of coarctare to press together; co- + arctare to press together, from arctus, p. p. See Arctation.].
     Pressed together; closely connected; -- applied to insects having the abdomen separated from the thorax only by a constriction.  [1913 Webster]
Coarctate pupa (Zoöl.), a pupa closely covered by the old larval skin, as in most Diptera.

ROGET THESAURUS

coarctate

Contraction

VB become small, become smaller, lessen, decrease, grow less, dwindle, shrink, contract, narrow, shrivel, collapse, wither, lose flesh, wizen, fall away, waste, wane, ebb, decay, be smaller than, fall short of, not come up to, render smaller, lessen, diminish, contract, draw in, narrow, coarctate, boil down, constrict, constringe, condense, compress, squeeze, corrugate, crimp, crunch, crush, crumple up, warp, purse up, pack, squeeze, stow, pinch, tighten, strangle, cramp, dwarf, bedwarf, shorten, circumscribe, restrain, (subtraction) 38 abrade, pare, reduce, attenuate, rub down, scrape, file, file down, grind, grind down, chip, shave, shear, wear down.

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