contrair

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin contrahere, with change of conjugation.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: con‧tra‧ir

Verb

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contrair (first-person singular present contraio, first-person singular preterite contraí, past participle contraído)

  1. (pronominal, intransitive) to contract (to draw together; to become shorter or narrower)
  2. (pronominal, transitive) to contract (to cause to contract)
  3. (grammar, intransitive) to contract (to become shorter by omitting some phonemes)
  4. (transitive) to contract (to acquire an illness)
  5. (transitive) to acquire (to come to have)

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Scots

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Preposition

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contrair

  1. against; in opposition to