Crossword clues for contracted
contracted
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Contracted \Con*tract"ed\ (k[o^]n*tr[a^]kt"[e^]d), a.
Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun.
Narrow; illiberal; selfish; as, a contracted mind; contracted views.
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Bargained for; betrothed; as, a contracted peace.
Inquire me out contracted bachelors.
--Shak.
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.]
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To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.
In all things desuetude doth contract and narrow our faculties.
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To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
Thou didst contract and purse thy brow.
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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 station.
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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.
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To betroth; to affiance.
The truth is, she and I, long since contracted, Are now so sure, that nothing can dissolve us.
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(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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, "agreed upon," also "shrunken, shortened," past participle adjective from contract (v.).
Wiktionary
1 (context not comparable English) Arranged by contract; established by agreement. 2 Made smaller by contraction. 3 incur; acquire. v
(en-past of: contract)
WordNet
adj. reduced in size or pulled together; "the contracted pupils of her eyes" [ant: expanded]
Wikipedia
Contracted is a 2013 American horror thriller film directed and written by Eric England. It was first released on November 23, 2013, in the United States and stars Najarra Townsend as a young woman that finds herself suffering from a mysterious sexually transmitted disease after a rape. It has been compared to the 2012 film Thanatomorphose, with which it shares similarities. Twitch Film has criticized the movie for its marketing, in which England describes the character Samantha's rape as a "one night stand".
Usage examples of "contracted".
Great numbers of the Alani, appeased by the punctual discharge of the engagements which Aurelian had contracted with them, relinquished their booty and captives, and quietly retreated to their own deserts, beyond the Phasis.
Perhaps it had been with this hope already at the back of her mind that she had invited her school-friend, Arabella Haverhill, who had contracted such a brilliant match, to stand as godmother to her infant daughter.
He soon after went to Buffalo, and contracted for a boat to be built, with two of his Archimedean screws for propulsion by steam.
Its biggest creditor was the company it contracted with to build the bikes it could no longer afford to make itself: the Shenzhen Bo-An Bike Co.
But the fangs held fast, and I heard the popping, sucking sound of the bladderlike seed pods of a leech plant, as they expanded and contracted like small ugly lungs.
The door slid open and a kzin stood there, all fangs and claws, pupils contracted to narrow slits.
Two of those other patients were suffering from cowpox contracted to protect them against smallpox.
As they danced, the lens filled out, became a sphere, which slowly contracted in on them, thickening and darkening as it came.
Two days after I had ascertained this the man died of fever contracted in crossing the swamps, and I was forced by want of provisions and by symptoms of an illness which afterwards prostrated me to take to my dhow again.
Then came a bump on the screen as the cells contracted while the cytoplasmic organelles worked like crazy to pump the ions back into the extracellular fluid.
His gaze was hot and glittery on her mouth, and his big, warm hands had contracted around her face, tilting it up to his.
Their pupils were contracted to pin-points, the light-grey irises around had a sort of swimming glitter, and round these again the whites were injected with blood.
First, you may be puzzled about why the circumference of the ride is not Lorentz contracted in exactly the same way as the ruler, and hence measured by Slim to have the same length as we originally found.
The larger stores either had or contracted for plows, blowers and melters, which were simply road fusers set on low heat.
Nothingness, which contracted a monstrous and nightmarish debt by inflating, without rhyme or reason, the metagalactic bubble!