contraction
Contraction is a 11 letter word which starts with the letter C and ends with the letter N for which we found 5 definitions.
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| (n.) The act or process of contracting shortening or shrinking; the state of being contracted; as contraction of the heart of the pupil of the eye or of a tendion; the contraction produced by cold. |
| (n.) The process of shortening an operation. |
| (n.) The act of incurring or becoming subject to as liabilities obligation debts etc.; the process of becoming subject to; as the contraction of a disease. |
| (n.) Something contracted or abbreviated as a word or phrase; -- as plenipo for plenipotentiary; crim. con. for criminal conversation etc. |
| (n.) The shortening of a word or of two words by the omission of a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one; as ne'er for never; can't for can not; don't for do not; it's for it is. |
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