Synonym of the word CONTRACTION

n. A reversible reduction in size.
n. (economics) A period of economic decline or negative growth.
n. (biology) A shortening of a muscle when it is used.
n. (medicine) A strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth.
n. (linguistics) A process whereby one or more sounds of a free morpheme (a word) are lost or reduced, such…
n. (English orthography) A word with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe, usually resulting from the…
n. (medicine) Contracting a disease.
n. (phonetics) Syncope, the loss of sounds from within a word.
n. The acquisition of something, generally negative.
n. (medicine) A distinct stage of wound healing, wherein the wound edges are gradually pulled together.

n. An increase in density; the act of compressing, or the state of being compressed; compaction.
n. (automotive) The cycle of an internal combustion engine during which the fuel and air mixture is compressed.
n. (computing) The process by which data is compressed.
n. (music) The electronic process by which any sound's gain is automatically controlled.
n. (astronomy) The deviation of a heavenly body from a spherical form.

n. The act or process of condensing or of being condensed.
n. The state of being condensed.
n. (physics) The conversion of a gas to a liquid.
n. The condensate so formed.
n. (chemistry) The reaction of two substances with the simultaneous loss of water or other small molecule.

v. (intransitive) Of a quantity, to become smaller.
v. (transitive) To make (a quantity) smaller.
n. An amount by which a quantity is decreased.
n. (knitting) A reduction in the number of stitches, usually accomplished by suspending the stitch to be…

n. A lessening, decrease or reduction.
n. The act or process of making diminutive.
n. (music) a compositional technique where the composer shortens the melody by shortening its note values.

n. The act, process, or result of reducing.
n. The amount or rate by which something is reduced, e.g. in price.
n. (chemistry) A reaction in which electrons are gained and valence is reduced; often by the removal of oxygen…
n. (cooking) The process of rapidly boiling a sauce to concentrate it.
n. (mathematics) The rewriting of an expression into a simpler form.
n. (computability theory) a transformation of one problem into another problem, such as mapping reduction…
n. (music) An arrangement for a far smaller number of parties, e.g. a keyboard solo based on a full opera.
n. (philosophy, phenomenology) A philosophical procedure intended to reveal the objects of consciousness…
n. (medicine) A medical procedure to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.

n. (US, cooking) Solid fat, such as margarine, lard or butter, used to make shortcrust pastry.
n. verbal noun of shorten.
v. present participle of shorten.

n. The act of shrinking, or the proportion by which something shrinks.
n. The loss of merchandise through theft, spoilage, and obsolescence.
n. (slang) The reduction in size of the male genitalia when cold, such as from immersion in cold water.

v. present participle of shrink.
n. The act of one who, or that which, shrinks; act of becoming smaller or moving timidly away.

n. The smallest unit of language which has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest…
n. Something which is like such a unit of language.
n. The fact or act of speaking, as opposed to taking action.
n. (now rare outside certain phrases) Something which has been said; a comment, utterance; speech.
n. (obsolete outside certain phrases) A watchword or rallying cry, a verbal signal (even when consisting…
n. (obsolete) A proverb or motto.
n. News; tidings (used without an article).
n. An order; a request or instruction; an expression of will.
n. A promise; an oath or guarantee.
n. A brief discussion or conversation.
n. (in the plural) See words.
n. (theology, sometimes Word) Communication from God; the message of the Christian gospel; the Bible, Scripture.
n. (theology, sometimes Word) Logos, Christ.
v. (transitive) To say or write (something) using particular words; to phrase (something).
v. (transitive, obsolete) To flatter with words, to cajole.
v. (transitive) To ply or overpower with words.
v. (transitive, rare) To conjure with a word.
v. (intransitive, archaic) To speak, to use words; to converse, to discourse.
interj. (slang, African American Vernacular) Truth, indeed, that is the truth! The shortened form of the statement…
interj. (slang, emphatic, stereotypically, African American Vernacular) An abbreviated form of word up; a statement…
v. Alternative form of worth (to become).

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