constipated

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"You could run into the extremes of eating too much, where if you're not drinking enough water to hydrate and exceed the amount of soluble and insoluble fiber, you can get constipated," Lee said.

From Science Daily • Mar. 8, 2026

When Leonidas was just a month old, he was fussy and often constipated.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

Ms Perea was 29 when she first visited her GP after feeling constipated and bloated.

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2025

The tycoon, played with constipated entitlement by Guy Pearce, has the pastiche name Harrison Lee Van Buren.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2024

The attack on the church began in earnest in 1517, when a constipated German monk nailed a list of complaints to the door of the church in Wittenberg.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife