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constringeverb to reduce in size or volume by or as if by pressing parts or members togethera styptic pencil stops the bleeding by constringing the small blood vessels at the site of cut capsule, capsulize, collapse, compact, compress, condense, constrict, contract, narrow (down), squeeze, telescope cram, crowd, jam, jam-pack, packabbreviate, abridge, curtail, shortenboil down, downsize, shrinkconcentrate, consolidatesimplify, streamlinedecrease, diminish, lessen decompress, expand, open, outspread, outstretch dilate, disperse, dissipate, scatterdistend, inflate, swell in 1604 |