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contractedverbpast tense of contract to become affected with (a disease or disorder)before vaccines were invented, people lived in fear of contracting polio came down (with), caught, got, sickened (with), took, went down (with)(chiefly British) broke out (with)died (from), succumbed (to)failed, languished, sank(or sunk), wasted (away), weakened, wilted, withered, worsened came back, gained, healed, mended, recouped, recovered, recuperated, snapped backrallied, rebounded, recovered (from), shook (off) to become smaller in size or volume through the drawing together of particles of mattermetal contracts at low temperatures compressed, condensed, constricted, shrank(or shrunk) collapsed, deflated, flatteneddried up, shriveled(or shrivelled), wilted, witheredabated, decreased, diminished, dwindled, lessenedreceded, retreated, withdrew ballooned, expanded, snowballed, swelled accumulated, grew, increasedballooned, inflated, puffed (up) to reduce in size or volume by or as if by pressing parts or members togethercontract the calf muscles in your legs capsuled, capsulized, collapsed, compacted, compressed, condensed, constricted, constringed, narrowed (down), squeezed, telescoped crammed, crowded, jammed, jam-packed, packedabbreviated, abridged, curtailed, shortenedboiled down, downsized, shrank(or shrunk)concentrated, consolidatedsimplified, streamlineddecreased, diminished, lessened decompressed, expanded, opened, outspread, outstretched dilated, dispersed, dissipated, scattereddistended, inflated, swelled to come to an arrangement as to a course of actionthe farmer contracted for delivery of the hay by the first of July agreed, bargained, covenanted came around, came roundsubscribed, underwrotearranged, settled came to terms, struck a bargain disagreed differed, dissentedcanceled(or cancelled), reneged, revokedargued, contested, disputed, objected |