All 3 Uses
contract
in
Breaking Dawn, by Meyer
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- Surely I was in breach of the contract.†
Book 3
- I held there, contracting this new muscle so that it closely surrounded Edward, a thin but unbreakable sheet between his body and our enemies.†
Book 3
- I hissed with frustration, and the shield roiled with my irritation, shifting its shape and contracting around our side.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(contract as in: legal contract) an agreement - typically written and enforceable by law
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(2)
(contract as in: contract the disease) to get -- especially in reference to a disease
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(3)
(contract as in: the metal contracted in the cold) when something gets shorter or smaller
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(4)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) A grammatical sense of the word form contraction describes can't as a shortened form of can not.