coarct
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]coarct (third-person singular simple present coarcts, present participle coarcting, simple past and past participle coarcted)
- To coarctate.
- a coarcted aorta
- 1995, Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age […] , New York: Bantam Spectra, →ISBN, page 30:
- All the other thetes, coarcted into the tacky little claves belonging to their synthetic phyles, […]
References
[edit]- “coarct”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.