contraer

Meaning

  1. to contract, to get, to catch, to develop (e.g. a disease, illness or infection)
  2. to incur, to get in, to get into (debt)
  3. to enter into, to undertake (e.g. an agreement, a commitment, a marriage, an engagement, obligations)

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Hyphenated as
con‧tra‧er
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kontɾaˈeɾ/
Etymology

From Latin contrahere. Cognate with English contract.

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