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contractingnoun the act or process of reducing the size or volume of something by or as if by pressingthe contracting of the time frame for the primaries tends to favor candidates who are already well-known compacting, compaction, compression, condensation, condensing, constricting, constriction, contraction, squeeze, squeezing, telescoping abbreviation, abridgment(or abridgement), curtailment, shorteningconcentration, consolidationsimplification, streamliningdecreasing, diminishment, lessening decompression, expansion dilation, dispersion, dissipation, scatteringdistension(or distention), inflation, swelling to become affected with (a disease or disorder)before vaccines were invented, people lived in fear of contracting polio catching, coming down (with), getting, going down (with)(chiefly British), sickening (with), taking breaking out (with)dying (from), succumbing (to)failing, languishing, sinking, wasting (away), weakening, wilting, withering, worsening coming back, gaining, healing, mending, recouping, recovering, recuperating, snapping backrallying, rebounding, recovering (from), shaking (off) to become smaller in size or volume through the drawing together of particles of mattermetal contracts at low temperatures compressing, condensing, constricting, shrinking collapsing, deflating, flatteningdrying up, shriveling(or shrivelling), wilting, witheringabating, decreasing, diminishing, dwindling, lesseningreceding, retreating, withdrawing ballooning, expanding, snowballing, swelling accumulating, growing, increasingballooning, inflating, puffing (up) to reduce in size or volume by or as if by pressing parts or members togethercontract the calf muscles in your legs capsuling, capsulizing, collapsing, compacting, compressing, condensing, constricting, constringing, narrowing (down), squeezing, telescoping cramming, crowding, jamming, jam-packing, packingabbreviating, abridging, curtailing, shorteningboiling down, downsizing, shrinkingconcentrating, consolidatingsimplifying, streamliningdecreasing, diminishing, lessening decompressing, expanding, opening, outspreading, outstretching dilating, dispersing, dissipating, scatteringdistending, inflating, swelling to come to an arrangement as to a course of actionthe farmer contracted for delivery of the hay by the first of July agreeing, bargaining, covenanting coming around, coming roundsubscribing, underwritingarranging, settling coming to terms, striking a bargain disagreeing differing, dissentingcanceling(or cancelling), reneging, revokingarguing, contesting, disputing, objecting |