Contracting Synonyms and Antonyms

Make or become more narrow or restricted
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. taking
  2. getting
  3. incurring
  4. narrowing
  5. sickening
  6. catching
  7. developing
Antonyms:
  1. giving
Squeeze or press together
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. constricting
  2. compressing
  3. evaporating
  4. pressing
  5. wasting
  6. withering
  7. receding
  8. consuming
  9. shrinking
  10. dwindling
  11. losing
  12. lessening
  13. knitting
  14. wrinkling
  15. waning
  16. squeezing
  17. ebbing
  18. compacting
  19. subsiding
  20. abating
  21. declining
  22. deflating
  23. weakening
  24. shrivelling
  25. condensing
Antonyms:
  1. expanding
  2. strengthening
  3. stretching
Becoming infected
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. catching

Words Related to Contracting

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Contracting Sentence Examples

  • The muscles in her legs were contracting painfully.

  • Her heart hesitated a moment, contracting for a race.

  • Another characteristic of cancer is that it spreads far and wide, drawing other tissues to itself by contracting fibrous bands.

  • Stephen contrived to hold his own by adroitly contracting an alliance with the powerful Neapolitan Angevins who had the ear of the pope; but Ladislaus (q.v.) was so completely caught in the toils of the Kumanians, that the Holy See, the suzerain of Hungary, was forced to intervene to prevent the relapse of the kingdom into barbarism, and the unfortunate Ladislaus perished in the crusade that was preached against him.

  • All the errors, except that depending on a, and especially those depending on -y and S, can be diminished, without loss of resolving power, by contracting the vertical aperture.

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