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1. To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract
one's sphere of action.

2. To be drawn together so as to be diminished in size or extent; to shrink; to be reduced in compass or in
duration; as, iron contracts in cooling; a rope contracts when wet.

3. Contracted; as, a contract verb.

4. Contracted; affianced; betrothed.

5. The agreement of two or more persons, upon a sufficient consideration or cause, to do, or to abstain from
doing, some act; an agreement in which a party undertakes to do, or not to do, a particular thing; a formal
bargain; a compact; an interchange of legal rights.




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