Word: contracting
To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen. Example: The snail's body contracted into its shell.
(grammar) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one. Example: The word "cannot" is often contracted into "can't".
To enter into a contract with.
To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain. Example: to contract for carrying the mail
To bring on; to incur; to acquire. Example: She contracted the habit of smoking in her teens.
To gain or acquire (an illness).
To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
To betroth; to affiance.
The act of something that contracts or shrinks; contraction. Example: the contractings of his muscles
Work done on a contract basis.
Getting smaller; drawing itself together into a smaller area.
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