coarct

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 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.