contrarre

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to contract, to tense (muscles, nerves, the mouth, etc.)
  2. (transitive) to contract, to come down with, to get (a disease)
  3. (transitive) to pick up (a bad habit, a vice, etc.)
  4. (transitive) to enter into, to conclude (a pact, a marriage, etc.)
  5. (intransitive) to contract (to enter into a contract or covenant)

Frequency

30k
Hyphenated as
con‧tràr‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/konˈtrar.re/
Etymology

From Latin contrahere.

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