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Discover LudwigThe word "constipated" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to the physical condition of having difficulty with bowel movements. Example sentence: She had been feeling constipated for several days, so she decided to take a laxative.
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constipated
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Related: Election night TV – horror, tedium and constipated monologues ITV lost out for the second election in a row to Channel 4's Alternative Election Night fronted by former Newsnight anchor Jeremy Paxman and David Mitchell, among many others.
The more constipated you are, the more likely you are to go on to develop the neurological problems that cause the muscular tremors which characterise Parkinson's.The research, published recently in Neurology by Robert Abbott of the Pacific Health Research Institute in Honolulu and his colleagues, examined data on 6,790 Japanese-American men.
Other people in that town might go round looking like constipated hound dogs, but he was having fun and sharing it, partying and junketing first-class all over the country on the federal dime.
He also said that political integration of the Union had to take place at the same time, otherwise an expanded Union would be both bloated and constipated.
Russians had plenty to complain about: a government so incompetent at collecting taxes that it could provide few services; a payments system so constipated that soldiers, miners, teachers and a host of other workers went without wages; appalling living standards even for those in work; ill-equipped hospitals, overcrowded prisons, pollution, early death.
Even more intriguingly, nerve cells in the colons of Parkinson's sufferers who are constipated contain structural abnormalities known as Lewy bodies, which are a hallmark of the affected brain tissue in people with Parkinson's.
Mr Latham's description of John Howard, the conservative Liberal Party prime minister, as looking "constipated as usual", is nothing next to the venom he unleashes on his own party and his former colleagues, especially Kim Beazley, the leader who succeeded him.
For many right-wingers, the DNI office will prove disastrous, adding an unwanted layer of bureaucracy to an already constipated system.
The firm has a "relatively constipated process of reviewing anything," he says.
India, he wrote, was "constipated with a lot of humbug".
Hire education He's supremely adept at putting down other people's dearth of imagination, but it seems that Lord Sugar is himself creatively constipated when it comes to the title of his latest magnus opus.
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