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unconstricted


verb (used with object)

  1. to draw or press in; cause to contract or shrink; compress.
  2. to slow or stop the natural course or development of: Greed and aggressiveness constricted the nation’s cultural life.

verb (tr)

  1. to make smaller or narrower, esp by contracting at one place
  2. to hold in or inhibit; limit

v.early 15c., from Latin constrictus, past participle of constringere “compress” (see constrain). A direct borrowing from Latin of the same word which, via French, became constrain. Related: Constricted; constricting. v.

  1. To make smaller or narrower, especially by binding or squeezing.
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