obstipate

Borrowed from Late Latin obstipātus, perfect passive participle of obstipō (“to block, stop up”), from ob- +‎ stipō; see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

obstipate (third-person singular simple present obstipates, present participle obstipating, simple past and past participle obstipated)

1. (medicine) To induce severe constipation through an intestinal blockage [from 1710]
2. (rare) To become or cause to become blocked up. [from 1656]
   • 1926, Maxwell Struthers Burt, The Interpreter's House‎^[1], page 136:

     Noisy, stuffy men smelling of tobacco smoke, their minds obstipated by clogged presumptions !

• obstipation
• obstipative

• constipate