contract

1. n. To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action. Source: opted

2. n. To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit. Source: opted

3. n. To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease. Source: opted

4. n. To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for. Source: opted

5. n. To betroth; to affiance. Source: opted

6. n. To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one. Source: opted

7. v. i. 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. Source: opted

8. v. i. To make an agreement; to covenant; to agree; to bargain; as, to contract for carrying the mail. Source: opted

9. a. Contracted; as, a contract verb. Source: opted

10. a. Contracted; affianced; betrothed. Source: opted

11. n. 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. Source: opted

12. n. A formal writing which contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation. Source: opted

13. n. The act of formally betrothing a man and woman. Source: opted

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