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contractnoun a formal agreement to fulfill an obligationaccused her of breaking their contract by not completing the decorating job on budget bond, covenant, deal, guarantee, guaranty, surety, warranty oath, pledge, troth, vow, wordaccord, bargain, compact, concordat, convention, pact, treatyassurance, insurance, sealbail, deposit, pawn, security an arrangement about action to be takena contract outlining what needed to be done by each person accord, agreement, bargain, compact, convention, covenant, deal, disposition, pact, settlement, understanding charter, treatybinder, pledge, promisealliance, association, entente, entente cordiale, league, partnershipacceptance, approval, assent, concurrence, consent, OK(or okay) to become affected with (a disease or disorder)before vaccines were invented, people lived in fear of contracting polio catch, come down (with), get, go down (with)(chiefly British), sicken (with), take break out (with)die (from), succumb (to)fail, languish, sink, waste (away), weaken, wilt, wither, worsen come back, gain, heal, mend, recoup, recover, recuperate, snap backrally, rebound, recover (from), shake (off) to become smaller in size or volume through the drawing together of particles of mattermetal contracts at low temperatures compress, condense, constrict, shrink collapse, deflate, flattendry up, shrivel, wilt, witherabate, decrease, diminish, dwindle, lessenrecede, retreat, withdraw balloon, expand, snowball, swell accumulate, grow, increaseballoon, inflate, puff (up) to reduce in size or volume by or as if by pressing parts or members togethercontract the calf muscles in your legs capsule, capsulize, collapse, compact, compress, condense, constrict, constringe, narrow (down), squeeze, telescope cram, crowd, jam, jam-pack, packabbreviate, abridge, curtail, shortenboil down, downsize, shrinkconcentrate, consolidatesimplify, streamlinedecrease, diminish, lessen decompress, expand, open, outspread, outstretch dilate, disperse, dissipate, scatterdistend, inflate, swell to come to an arrangement as to a course of actionthe farmer contracted for delivery of the hay by the first of July agree, bargain, covenant come around, come roundsubscribe, underwritearrange, settle come to terms, strike a bargain disagree differ, dissentcancel, renege, revokeargue, contest, dispute, object v.contract, shrink, condense, compress, constrict, deflate mean to decrease in bulk or volume.contract applies to a drawing together of surfaces or particles or a reduction of area or length.caused her muscles to contract shrink implies a contracting or a loss of material and stresses a falling short of original dimensions.the sweater will shrink when washed condense implies a reducing of something homogeneous to greater compactness without significant loss of content.condense the essay into a paragraph compress implies a pressing into a small compass and definite shape usually against resistance.compressed cotton into bales constrict implies a tightening that reduces diameter.the throat is constricted by a tight collar deflate implies a contracting by reducing the internal pressure of contained air or gas.deflate the balloon in the 14th century |