contracting

Meanings

Noun

• becoming infected
  • "the contracting of a serious illness can be financially catastrophic"

Verb

• enter into a contractual arrangement
• engage by written agreement
• squeeze or press together
• be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
• become smaller or draw together
• make smaller
• compress or concentrate
• make or become more narrow or restricted
• reduce in scope while retaining essential elements

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

expand, stretch, widen