different between constricted vs coarctate

English

Verb

constricted

1. simple past tense and past participle of constrict

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin coarct?tus, perfect participle of coarct? (“to press together, compress, contract, confine”), from co- (“being or bringing together, co-”) +? arct? (“to draw or press close together”).

Pronunciation

• (adjective):
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?????k.te?t/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ko????k?te?t/, /?ko????k?te?t/, /ko????k.t?t/, /?ko????k.t?t/
• (verb):
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?????k.te?t/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ko????k?te?t/

Adjective

coarctate (comparative more coarctate, superlative most coarctate)

1. (medicine) Pressed close together, constricted, narrowed, compressed.
2. (entomology) (of the pupa of certain flies) Enclosed in a rigid case formed by the larval cuticle or puparium.

Verb

coarctate (third-person singular simple present coarctates, present participle coarctating, simple past and past participle coarctated)

1. (obsolete) To press together; to crowd.
2. (obsolete) To restrain; to confine.

Related terms

• coarctation

References

• “coarctate”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “coarctate”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ko.ark?ta?.te/, [koärk?t?ä?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ko.ark?ta.te/, [k??rk?t???t??]

Verb

coarct?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of coarct?