Consternation

kon-ster-na's hun, n. terror which throws into confusion astonishment horror. [L. constematio—conster no conster nat us from con, sig completene , and sterno, to strew, to throw down.] Constipate, kon's tip-at, v to pre closely together: to stop up: to make costive. [L. con, together, and stipo, stipatus, to pack.]