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contracted 音标拼音: [k'ɑntræktəd] a. 收缩了的,简约的,契约的 收缩了的,简约的,契约的 contracted adj 1: reduced in size or pulled together; " the contracted pupils of her eyes" [ ant: { expanded}] Contract \ Con* tract"\ ( k[ o^] n* tr[ a^] kt"), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Contracted}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Contracting}.] [ 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 lessen; as, to contract one' s sphere of action. [ 1913 Webster] In all things desuetude doth contract and narrow our faculties. -- Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit. [ 1913 Webster] Thou didst contract and purse thy brow. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease. [ 1913 Webster] Each from each contract new strength and light. -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster] Such behavior we contract by having much conversed with persons of high station. -- Swift. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for. [ 1913 Webster] We have contracted an inviolable amity, peace, and lague with the aforesaid queen. -- Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster] Many persons . . . had contracted marriage within the degrees of consanguinity . . . prohibited by law. -- Strype. [ 1913 Webster] 5. To betroth; to affiance. [ 1913 Webster] The truth is, she and I, long since contracted, Are now so sure, that nothing can dissolve us. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 6. ( Gram.) 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. [ 1913 Webster]
Contracted \ Con* tract" ed\ ( k[ o^] n* tr[ a^] kt"[ e^] d), a. 1. Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Narrow; illiberal; selfish; as, a contracted mind; contracted views. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Bargained for; betrothed; as, a contracted peace. [ 1913 Webster] Inquire me out contracted bachelors. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 124 Moby Thesaurus words for " contracted": Spartan, abated, abbreviated, ablated, abridged, affianced, agreed, aposiopestic, arranged, assured, attenuated, bated, belittled, betrothed, blank, blind, blind- alley, bound, brief, brusque, cecal, choked, choked off, clamped, clipped, close, closed, committed, compact, compacted, compendious, compressed, compromised, concentrated, concise, condensed, consolidated, constricted, consumed, covenanted, cramped, crisp, curt, curtailed, cut, dead, dead- end, decreased, deflated, diminished, dissipated, docked, dropped, elliptic, engaged, epigrammatic, eroded, fallen, gnomic, guaranteed, intended, knitted, laconic, less, lesser, lower, lowered, miniaturized, nipped, obligated, pinched, pinched- in, pithy, pledged, plighted, pointed, promised, pruned, puckered, pursed, reduced, reserved, retrenched, scaled- down, sealed, sententious, settled, shorn, short, short and sweet, shortened, shorter, shrunk, shrunken, shut, signed, smaller, solidified, squeezed, squeezed shut, stipulated, strangled, strangulated, succinct, summary, sworn, synopsized, taciturn, terse, tight, to the point, truncated, undertaken, underwritten, unopen, unopened, unvented, unventilated, warranted, wasp- waisted, watered- down, weakened, worn, wrinkled
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