astringe

• IPA^(key): /əˈstɹɪnd͡ʒ/

astringe (third-person singular simple present astringes, present participle astringing, simple past and past participle astringed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To constrict, to compress
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To become constricted or compressed
3. To bind by moral or legal obligation.
   • c. 1555, John Harpsfield, Divorce of Henry VIII:

     God's mind was to astringe and bind the Church perpetually to it.

• astringent

• Tangiers, Tasering, Tigranes, angriest, angrites, angstier, ganister, gantries, granites, inert gas, ingrates, rangiest, reasting, stearing, tasering, tearings

• IPA^(key): /aˈstrin.d͡ʒe/
• Rhymes: -indʒe
• Hyphenation: a‧strìn‧ge

astringe

1. third-person singular present indicative of astringere

• Ginestra, gastrine, ginestra, graniste, regnasti, segnarti, stingerà, transige, transigé

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /asˈtrin.ɡe/, [äs̠ˈt̪rɪŋɡɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /asˈtrin.d͡ʒe/, [äsˈt̪rin̠ʲd͡ʒe]

astringe

1. second-person singular present active imperative of astringō

• IPA^(key): /asˈtɾinxe/ [asˈt̪ɾĩŋ.xe]
• Rhymes: -inxe
• Syllabification: as‧trin‧ge

astringe

1. inflection of astringir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative