constricted

1. Especially tense;
   Especially in some dialects (synset 302413834)
   referred to in: phonetics - the branch of acoustics concerned with speech processes including its production and perception and acoustic analysis
   similar to: tense - pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat')
2. Drawn together or squeezed physically or by extension psychologically (synset 301451347)
   "a constricted blood vessel"; "a constricted view of life"
   similar to:

   • narrowed - made narrow; limited in breadth
   • pinched - as if squeezed uncomfortably tight
   • stenosed, stenotic - abnormally constricted body canal or passage

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