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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Contractive

Contractive \Con*tract"ive\, a. Tending to contract; having the property or power or power of contracting.

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contractive

a. Able to contract; contractile

Usage examples of "contractive".

And the forms of the cumuli themselves tell us in manifold metamorphoses of a state of equilibrium between expansive and contractive tendencies within the atmosphere.