contrair
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin contraho, contrahere, probably a borrowing.
Verb
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- (takes a reflexive pronoun, intransitive) to contract (to draw together; to become shorter or narrower)
- (takes a reflexive pronoun, transitive) to contract (to cause to contract)
- (grammar, intransitive) to contract (to become shorter by omitting some phonemes)
- (transitive) to contract (to acquire an illness)
- (transitive) to acquire (to come to have)
Conjugation
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