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contain

Meaning

  1. To hold inside.
  2. To include as a part.
  3. To put constraints upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.
  4. To have as an element or subset.
  5. (obsolete) To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.

Hyphenated as
con‧tain
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kənˈteɪn/

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