Contracted is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CONTRACTED in dictionary:

VERB:
• CONTRACT, to decrease in size
• decrease in size, number, or range
• (of a muscle) become shorter and tighter in order to effect movement of part of the body
• shorten (a word or phrase) by combination or elision
• enter into a formal and legally binding agreement
• choose to be involved in (a scheme)
• choose to withdraw from or not become involved in a scheme
• secure specified rights or undertake specified obligations in a formal and legally binding agreement
• impose an obligation on (someone) to do something by means of a formal agreement
• arrange for work to be done by another organization
• formally enter into (a marriage)
• enter into (a friendship or other relationship)
• catch or develop (a disease or infectious agent)
• become liable to pay (a debt)
NOUN:
• a written or spoken agreement, especially one concerning employment, sales, or tenancy, that is intended to be enforceable by law
• the branch of law concerned with the making and observation of contracts
• an arrangement for someone to be killed by a hired assassin
• a formal agreement to marry
• the declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trumps
ADJECTIVE:
• Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun.
• Narrow; illiberal; selfish; as, a contracted mind; contracted views.
• Bargained for; betrothed; as, a contracted peace.
• reduced in size or pulled together
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to decrease in size or volume

Words related to CONTRACTED

contract12 contractedly20 contracting16 contracts13

Words that contain CONTRACTED

contractedly20 uncontracted17 precontracted20 subcontracted20 contractedness19

How to use CONTRACTED in a sentence

• This dreadful process caused our Lord indescribable agony, his breast heaved, and his legs were quite contracted.
• My prospects of happiness are extremely contracted.
• He tried to hum the air, but his throat contracted.
• I contracted towards her a debt, and am going to pay it.
• Those who had contracted for freight and passage are desired to attend previous to that period.
• The commissioners of the two first are understood to be now negotiating a just division of the obligations contracted by them when united under one government.
• Up to now we have described the changes of form in the hoof as seen when the contracted foot is viewed from the solar surface.
• Such a response was a simple repudiation of obligations voluntarily contracted, and could scarcely fail to rouse the indignation of the Persian monarch.
• On the defeat of the latter prince it again contracted, though to what extent we have no means of determining.
• Except that they could eliminate Sinbad, since the cat had been in custody during the time Stotz had apparently contracted the disease.
• The tricks of manner and speech contracted by a boy or young man should be noticed and corrected by mother or sister before they become confirmed habits.
• The clear, kindly blue eyes were contracted as if Enoch were enduring actual physical pain.
• At the same time foreign loans were contracted in England to the extent of L32,000,000, of which over three fourths were advanced in cash.
• Then, no man can, by natural right, oblige the lands he occupied, or the persons who succeed him in that occupation, to the payment of debts contracted by him.
• He thought the marriage of Michael Feydy and Anne Allard binding, because it had been contracted in good faith.
• After he knew that he had contracted this disease, he continued to have connections with different women, who were supposed not to have already contracted it.
• And thus, because Christ was without sin, He is said not to have contracted these defects, but to have assumed them.
• Her heart contracted with an awful sense of loneliness.
• The width of the Derwent is contracted in the south-west reach to little more than a quarter of a mile, and we had not rowed far up it before the water became perfectly fresh.
• A spur was wanting to urge him beyond the limits of so contracted an existence, and that spur was supplied by an honourable ambition.
• They say the queen went so far as to consult the court of Rome, whether such a marriage, contracted against her will, would be valid.
• But now, his form dilated, and the muscles of his arm contracted, as if he were about to strike.
• Though, in truth, their payment, from the sinking fund, of debt which was never contracted by Parliamentary authority, was, to all intents and purposes, so much debt incurred.
• From traveling, probably, she had contracted a very heavy cold, which threatened her with consumption.
• The sitting posture is still frequent, though occasionally the body lies flat on one side with the legs slightly contracted.
• The claim was rejected by the Pension Bureau on the ground that they soldier died from an acute disease which bore no relation to any complaint contracted in the Army.

Similar words containing NTRACT without suffix ed and without prefix co

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