contracted

Meanings

Verb

• enter into a contractual arrangement
• engage by written agreement
• squeeze or press together
  • "the spasm contracted the muscle"
• be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
• become smaller or draw together
• make smaller
  • "The heat contracted the woollen garment"
• compress or concentrate
• make or become more narrow or restricted
• reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
• simple past and past participle of contract

Adjective

• reduced in size or pulled together
  • "the contracted pupils of her eyes"

Adj

• Arranged by contract; established by agreement.
• Made smaller by contraction.
• Incurred; acquired.

Synonyms

abbreviate, abridge, compact, compress, concentrate, condense, constrict, contract, cut, foreshorten, get, narrow, press, reduce, shorten, shrink, sign, sign on, sign up, squeeze, take, undertake

Antonyms

expand, expanded, stretch, widen