CONTRACTED
contracted
(adjective) reduced in size or pulled together; “the contracted pupils of her eyes”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
contracted (comparative more contracted, superlative most contracted)
(not comparable) Arranged by contract; established by agreement.
Made smaller by contraction.
Incurred; acquired.
Verb
contracted
simple past tense and past participle of contract
Anagrams
• decontract
Source: Wiktionary
Con*tract"ed, a.
1. Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow;
a contracted noun.
2. Narrow; illiberal; selfish; as, a contracted mind; contracted
views.
3. Bargained for; betrothed; as, a contracted peace.
Inquire me out contracted bachelors. Shak.
CONTRACT
Con*tract", v. t. [imp. & p.p. Contracted; p.pr. & vb.n.
Contracting.] Etym: [L. contractus, p.p. of contrahere to contract;
con- + trahere to draw: cf. F. contracter. See Trace, and cf.
Contract, n.]
1. To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to
shorten, narrow, or lesen; as, to contract one's shpere of action.
In all things desuetude doth contract and narrow our faculties. Dr.
H. More.
2. To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
Thou didst contract and purse thy brow. Shak.
3. To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit; to
contract a debt; to contract a disease.
Each from each contract new strength and light. Pope.
Such behavior we contract by having much conversed with persons of
high statiSwift.
4. To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or
covenant for.
We have contracted an inviolable amity, peace, and lague with the
aforesaid queen. Hakluyt.
Many persons . . . had contracted marriage within the degrees of
consanguinity . . . prohibited by law. Strype.
5. To betroth; to affiance.
The truth is, she and I, long since contracted, Are now so sure, that
nothing can dissolve us. Shak.
6. (Gram.)
Definition: To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two
or more vowels or syllables to one.
Syn.
– To shorten; abridge; epitomize; narrow; lessen; condense; reduce;
confine; incur; assume.
Con*tract", v. i.
1. To be drawn together so as to be diminished in size or extent; to
shrink; to be reduced in compass or in duration; as, iron contracts
in cooling; a rope contracts when wet.
Years contracting to a moment. Wordsworth.
2. To make an agreement; to covenant; to agree; to bargain; as, to
contract for carrying the mail.
Con"tract, a.
Definition: Contracted: as, a contract verb. Goodwin.
Con*tract", a. Etym: [L. contractus, p.p.]
Definition: Contracted; affianced; betrothed. [Obs.] Shak.
Con"tract, n. Etym: [L. contractus, fr. contrahere: cf. F. contrat,
formerly also contract.]
1. (Law)
Definition: The agreement of two or more persons, upon a sufficient
consideration or cause, to do, or to abstain from doing, some act; an
agreement in which a party undertakes to do, or not to do, a
particular thing; a formal bargain; a compact; an interchange of
legal rights. Wharton.
2. A formal writing which contains the agreement of parties, with the
terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation.
3. The act of formally betrothing a man and woman.
This is the the night of the contract. Longwellow.
Syn.
– Covenant; agreement; compact; stipulation; bargain; arrangement;
obligation. See Covenant.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition