coarct

English

Verb

coarct (third-person singular simple present coarcts, present participle coarcting, simple past and past participle coarcted)

  1. To coarctate.
    • 1995, Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age, Bantam Books, published 2008, page 35:
      All the other thetes, coarcted into the tacky little claves belonging to their synthetic phyles, […]
    a coarcted aorta

References
  • coarct in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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