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Constricting meaning
present participle and gerund of constrict
Synonyms of Constricting
Example sentences (16)
Although patriarchy undoubtedly causes the greatest acute and structural harm to many, including gender nonconforming individuals, and trans people, it also fosters attitudes and standards that are constricting and limiting for cisgender men.
Cold temperatures may increase blood pressure while simultaneously constricting the coronary arteries.
Time to feel more like YOU,” Yitty said in another Instagram post featuring photos of people wearing the constricting apparel.
Using makeup, wigs, extravagant costumes, music and performance, drag is an art that displays how gender is not constricting, but can be very fluid.
The most important thing is to dress properly for the season with clothes that are wind-resistant without constricting your movements.
This means that the bra can create scars, by compressing and constricting the breast tissue; and bras can control scars, by compressing and damaging the scar-producing fibroblasts.
But the die was already cast: accumulating decisions like these had chipped away at environmental governance, slyly constricting environmental policies without overturning the law.
Indeed, previous criticism of the Bond’s wardrobe in centered on the somewhat constricting look of Mr. Craig’s Ford suits.
But despite the illusion of openness that the surrounding wilderness presents, the slow synth crawl of the music and the constricting chiaroscuro lighting fills the screen with the same isolating energy that is curated by the stale and menacing room 104.
Constricting waistbands, rigid fabrics and outmoded styles are all too familiar to professional women, particularly those who work in fields with more formal dress codes.
Rather than serve our interests, they are constricting them.
The governor’s plan “would have significant impacts on our capital program, severely constricting the number of new projects that advance in the current, and future years,” the DOT wrote.
However, the Luftwaffe was a broadly based force with no constricting central doctrine, other than its resources should be used generally to support national strategy.
Such projects have the additional effect of constricting downstream water supply; Toktogul deprives the lower reaches of the Syr Darya in Uzbekistan and the Aral Sea Basin of substantial amounts of water.
The flow of water through a hose can be controlled by squeezing it to reduce the cross section and the flow of electric charge through a JFET is controlled by constricting the current-carrying channel.
The prostate is prone to infection and enlargement later in life, constricting the urethra so urinating becomes slow and painful.