constrict

I had saline mixed with Lidocaine pumped into my face to constrict my blood vessels and numb me so I could endure the zapping.

It twines round the stems of lofty trees, which its flattened coils gradually constrict with almost life-like cruelty!

By virtue of this power they are enabled to constrict many dead animal matters.

Cartilaginous or partially calcified biconcave vertebrae are always well developed; they constrict the notochord intervertebrally.

Biconcave cartilaginous vertebrae are developed, and as is the case in most fishes, constrict the notochord vertebrally.

(b.) Those in which he tries to constrict it, by reuniting its separated sides.