1355 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ kəntɹˈakʃən], [ kəntɹˈakʃən], [ k_ə_n_t_ɹ_ˈa_k_ʃ_ə_n]

Similar words for contraction:

• act (noun)
• change (noun)
• compression (noun)
• condensation (noun)
• constriction (noun)
• contraction (noun)
• convulsion (noun)
• cramp (noun)
• decrease (noun)
• diminution (noun)
• drawing in; shortening (noun)
• epitome (noun)
• limit (noun)
• muscle spasm (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• reducing (noun)
• reduction (noun)
• restriction (noun)
• spasm (noun)
• stricture (noun)
• traction (noun)
• transfiguration (noun)
• wrinkle (noun)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words
• other relevant words (noun)

Paraphrases for contraction

Homophones for contraction

Hypernyms for contraction

Hyponyms for contraction

Synonyms for Contraction:

• n.

  •
  • collocate,
  • cognate,
  • derivation,
  • colloquialism,
  • syncope.
  •
  • constrict,
  • compact,
  • shrink,
  • contract,
  • wax and wane.
  • act (noun)
  • contraction,
  • muscular contraction,
  • muscle contraction.
  • change (noun)
  • novelty,
  • transubstantiation,
  • mutation,
  • variation,
  • novelties,
  • transition,
  • transfiguration,
  • turnover,
  • turnovers,
  • vicissitude,
  • transformations,
  • transmogrification.
  • compression (noun)
  • compression.
  • condensation (noun)
  • boildowns.
  • constriction (noun)
  • stenosises,
  • tightnesses,
  • squeezings.
  • contraction (noun)
  • shrinkage,
  • compaction,
  • deflation,
  • abridgement.
  • convulsion (noun)
  • algospasms,
  • convulsion.
  • cramp (noun)
  • charley horse,
  • charley horses,
  • shooting pains.
  • decrease (noun)
  • decrement,
  • truncation,
  • deduction,
  • Diminishment,
  • erosion,
  • curtailment,
  • concentration,
  • depletion.
  • diminution (noun)
  • de cays,
  • de cay,
  • de-cays,
  • de-cay,
  • weakenings.
  • drawing in; shortening (noun)
  • decreasing,
  • narrowing,
  • Curtailing,
  • Evaporating,
  • recession,
  • Abridging,
  • withdrawal,
  • confining,
  • Omitting,
  • omission,
  • dwindling,
  • abridgment,
  • tensing,
  • Shrivelling,
  • withdrawing,
  • tightening,
  • confinement,
  • receding,
  • deflating,
  • Abbreviating,
  • diminishing,
  • elision,
  • condensing,
  • cutting down,
  • drawing together,
  • shrinking,
  • evaporation,
  • Lopping.
  • epitome (noun)
  • re-capitulations,
  • re capitulations,
  • re-capitulation,
  • re capitulation.
  • limit (noun)
  • restriction.
  • muscle spasm (noun)
  • cramp.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • decrease,
  • markdown,
  • small difficulty,
  • boildown,
  • marking down,
  • cuttings,
  • constipations,
  • containments,
  • stricture,
  • abbreviation,
  • reduction,
  • traction,
  • decreasings,
  • shortening,
  • astringency,
  • subjugations,
  • subjection,
  • containment,
  • condensation,
  • restrictions,
  • algospasm,
  • chokings,
  • subjugation,
  • tightness,
  • no-no,
  • tic,
  • change,
  • Subdual,
  • epilepsy,
  • retrenchment,
  • Breviaries,
  • hang up,
  • retrenchments,
  • astringencies,
  • grain of salt,
  • paring down,
  • diminution,
  • pinch,
  • breviary,
  • epitome,
  • sketch,
  • constipation,
  • hangup,
  • constriction,
  • lessening,
  • shooting pain,
  • excess baggage,
  • no-no's,
  • Epilepsies,
  • strangulation,
  • spasm,
  • subtraction,
  • downgradings,
  • reducing,
  • stenosis.
  • reducing (noun)
  • compressings,
  • abbreviatings,
  • discountings,
  • paring downs,
  • marking downs,
  • dis-counting,
  • downsizings,
  • diminishings,
  • shrinkings,
  • de-creasing,
  • dietings,
  • cutting downs,
  • dis counting,
  • condensings,
  • de creasing,
  • contractings.
  • reduction (noun)
  • de valuation,
  • de-gradations,
  • sub-dual,
  • sub dual,
  • over throw,
  • re-bate,
  • over-throws,
  • de gradations,
  • sub traction,
  • de-valuation,
  • de-basement,
  • de basement,
  • sub-traction,
  • sub tractions,
  • re bate,
  • over-throw,
  • de gradation,
  • de-valuations,
  • sub-duals,
  • re bates,
  • de valuations,
  • de-basements,
  • de basements,
  • sub-tractions,
  • subduals,
  • over throws,
  • de-gradation,
  • sub duals.
  • restriction (noun)
  • grain salt,
  • nono's,
  • ball chain,
  • re strictions,
  • excess baggages,
  • no nos,
  • no no's,
  • re striction,
  • small difficulties,
  • re-striction,
  • re-strictions,
  • nono.
  • spasm (noun)
  • out-bursts,
  • out bursts,
  • out-burst,
  • out burst.
  • stricture (noun)
  • strangulations.
  • traction (noun)
  • Suctions,
  • resorption,
  • pullings,
  • suction,
  • draughts,
  • pulling,
  • towage,
  • towages,
  • haulage,
  • haulages,
  • draught.
  • transfiguration (noun)
  • trans-figurations,
  • trans figurations,
  • trans-figuration,
  • trans figuration.
  • wrinkle (noun)
  • crow's foot,
  • crowfoot,
  • crow foot,
  • crowsfoot,
  • crow's-foot.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • catchword,
  • malapropism,
  • false cognate,
  • back-formation,
  • function word,
  • homograph,
  • part of speech,
  • argot,
  • hypernym,
  • postmodifier,
  • hyponym,
  • premodifier,
  • pro-form,
  • loanword,
  • buzzword,
  • antonym,
  • homonym,
  • synonym,
  • synonymy,
  • portmanteau word,
  • polysyllable,
  • nonce word,
  • superordinate,
  • monosyllable,
  • weasel word,
  • variant,
  • homophone.
  •
  • rhyme,
  • keyword,
  • legalism,
  • connective,
  • discourse marker,
  • retract.
  •
  • substitute.
  •
  • thin.
  • Other relevant words:
  • colonial,
  • birthrate,
  • obstetrical,
  • ejector seat,
  • skip,
  • childbearing,
  • plunge,
  • death,
  • irregularity,
  • air pressure,
  • study,
  • bringing,
  • suspension,
  • increment,
  • bundle,
  • occluded front,
  • bring down,
  • lingo,
  • deepen,
  • news,
  • letter of the alphabet,
  • simpleness,
  • conversion,
  • jerked meat,
  • gestate,
  • paroxysm,
  • blockage,
  • speech,
  • tapered,
  • etymologizing,
  • founder,
  • august 6,
  • law of closure,
  • obstacle,
  • cesarean delivery,
  • incumbrance,
  • tenuous,
  • edition,
  • eastern standard time,
  • program,
  • refuse,
  • stochastic variable,
  • recoil,
  • using up,
  • undertake,
  • recantation,
  • word of honor,
  • passementerie,
  • subsiding,
  • bring on,
  • solidifying,
  • brook,
  • filiation,
  • soupcon,
  • flinch,
  • fill in,
  • tumble,
  • prostration,
  • hand,
  • expect,
  • slice,
  • thrust,
  • shift,
  • cartoon,
  • vaporisation,
  • edit out,
  • commute,
  • impediment,
  • piercing,
  • vernacular,
  • crimp,
  • speck,
  • minify,
  • blend,
  • crisp,
  • part,
  • lash,
  • natural depression,
  • cant,
  • enfeebling,
  • prick,
  • drainage,
  • dehydration,
  • baulk,
  • password,
  • pulling out,
  • fit,
  • bit,
  • modification,
  • comport,
  • acquit,
  • prototype,
  • arrest,
  • emergency,
  • keen,
  • buck,
  • hale,
  • slim,
  • birthing,
  • chance variable,
  • depressive disorder,
  • stimulate,
  • playscript,
  • strap,
  • engrossment,
  • wasting,
  • enlargement,
  • disregard,
  • heighten,
  • impedimenta,
  • patois,
  • assuagement,
  • induct,
  • impenetrability,
  • shortened,
  • interchange,
  • flog,
  • connecter,
  • parentage,
  • rack,
  • trimmed,
  • fill-in,
  • articulate,
  • discrepancy,
  • impairment,
  • geld,
  • coerce,
  • abjuration,
  • rationalise,
  • accouchement,
  • drug withdrawal,
  • obstetrical delivery,
  • descent,
  • fertility,
  • downsizing,
  • thickset,
  • reprieve,
  • form class,
  • impermeableness,
  • deliverance,
  • coalition,
  • gash,
  • run out,
  • niche,
  • deadening,
  • connate,
  • cesarean section,
  • moderation,
  • baseball swing,
  • oppression,
  • connection,
  • abridge,
  • decay,
  • consanguineous,
  • morsel,
  • bar,
  • accept,
  • alternative,
  • ingestion,
  • attenuated,
  • stand,
  • vaginal birth,
  • natural,
  • derive,
  • waters,
  • succinct,
  • overturn,
  • shrivel,
  • lineage,
  • relaxation behavior,
  • cut down,
  • caesarian,
  • lean,
  • newspaper clipping,
  • parturition,
  • economic consumption,
  • backdown,
  • blood relative,
  • ancestry,
  • flop,
  • opposite,
  • mite,
  • stand in,
  • subordinate,
  • coalescency,
  • blind gut,
  • give voice,
  • withdrawal method,
  • deletion,
  • sub,
  • second-stringer,
  • rescue,
  • meanness,
  • choking,
  • filch,
  • antepartum,
  • detachment,
  • fading,
  • synaeresis,
  • assiduousness,
  • intake,
  • precis,
  • crock up,
  • twinge,
  • turnover rate,
  • slight,
  • wring,
  • rush,
  • crow's feet,
  • ejection seat,
  • snub,
  • incision,
  • wear,
  • stocky,
  • enervating,
  • concordat,
  • swish,
  • derogation,
  • power play,
  • employee turnover,
  • backup man,
  • wear and tear,
  • support,
  • go far,
  • thresh,
  • cervix uteri,
  • pass up,
  • simple mindedness,
  • swig,
  • chasteness,
  • burst,
  • deport,
  • bleak,
  • labour,
  • discussion section,
  • top,
  • subordinate word,
  • burn,
  • seal off,
  • gag rule,
  • step-up,
  • tax deduction,
  • slack off,
  • parturiency,
  • cramp iron,
  • demise,
  • halt,
  • easement,
  • genetic mutation,
  • abstraction,
  • lancinate,
  • easiness,
  • switch off,
  • intensify,
  • bow,
  • compact car,
  • fluctuation,
  • depress,
  • grip,
  • rarefy,
  • akin,
  • survey,
  • formulate,
  • blood-related,
  • crunch,
  • remittal,
  • droopy,
  • break up,
  • slue,
  • insistency,
  • thrash,
  • recoup,
  • alteration,
  • convert,
  • loan,
  • hinder,
  • throttling,
  • switch,
  • vapor,
  • minus,
  • barricade,
  • crease,
  • psychiatrist,
  • issue,
  • gaud,
  • implication,
  • catching,
  • congenital anomaly,
  • ominous,
  • upset,
  • sparse,
  • labor,
  • slashed,
  • slim down,
  • crop,
  • nose dive,
  • encapsulate,
  • remission,
  • amnio,
  • insistence,
  • forswear,
  • vary,
  • slew,
  • hint,
  • polysyllabic word,
  • concentrate,
  • alternate,
  • constraining,
  • image,
  • motto,
  • frown,
  • abdominal delivery,
  • hiatus,
  • break,
  • scheme,
  • blueprint,
  • coalescence,
  • rumple,
  • quail,
  • superordinate word,
  • thin out,
  • holy scripture,
  • son,
  • respite,
  • slenderize,
  • have a bun in the oven,
  • hug,
  • swoon,
  • get down,
  • corrosion,
  • settlement,
  • collection,
  • worsen,
  • natality,
  • stymie,
  • neck opening,
  • lift,
  • atom,
  • metamorphosis,
  • crush,
  • stop,
  • suffer,
  • laugh line,
  • mote,
  • blackmail,
  • shortness,
  • cold shoulder,
  • guideword,
  • pilfer,
  • conglutination,
  • reduce,
  • denigrate,
  • giving birth,
  • vaporization,
  • low,
  • slang,
  • weakened,
  • synonymity,
  • foreshorten,
  • come,
  • lower berth,
  • reabsorption,
  • film editing,
  • curb,
  • entailment,
  • ignore,
  • integration,
  • thrash about,
  • malaprop,
  • take over,
  • tax write-off,
  • astringence,
  • downplay,
  • logos,
  • reflux,
  • collar,
  • version,
  • denseness,
  • economic crisis,
  • ebb off,
  • abstractionist,
  • shutdown,
  • booyong,
  • varsity letter,
  • funk,
  • hieroglyph,
  • loosening,
  • capsulise,
  • synthesis,
  • give way,
  • ruckle,
  • cul,
  • impression,
  • livery,
  • muscle spasm,
  • blackjack,
  • line,
  • freshness,
  • molecule,
  • segment,
  • sesquipedalian,
  • density,
  • correct,
  • conquering,
  • narrow,
  • wasting away,
  • clinch,
  • shrivel up,
  • imperativeness,
  • cause,
  • lying-in,
  • step in,
  • stinging,
  • parole,
  • congenital defect,
  • resume,
  • sib,
  • wince,
  • atmospheric pressure,
  • repose,
  • form,
  • pungency,
  • kin,
  • exigency,
  • consanguine,
  • cesarian,
  • press cutting,
  • climb-down,
  • squelch,
  • tidings,
  • obstetrics,
  • sneak,
  • stanch,
  • rest,
  • vapour,
  • yield,
  • reject,
  • encirclement,
  • base,
  • jactitate,
  • nascence,
  • pressure sensation,
  • onanism,
  • stringency,
  • purse,
  • complaint,
  • intelligence,
  • snack,
  • guide word,
  • restraint,
  • closed-class word,
  • inauspicious,
  • growth,
  • butterflower,
  • shove,
  • draw back,
  • minginess,
  • tolerate,
  • restrict,
  • threatening,
  • pack,
  • assiduity,
  • simplification,
  • ease,
  • slump,
  • knit,
  • bangle,
  • write out,
  • drumhead,
  • dissolve,
  • tautness,
  • random variable,
  • backup,
  • word of god,
  • nonfigurative,
  • conduct,
  • tocology,
  • limn,
  • liberalization,
  • theme,
  • apprehension,
  • wearing away,
  • cecum,
  • absorption,
  • gouge,
  • charley-horse,
  • exchange,
  • crumble,
  • downslope,
  • stoppage,
  • scrunch up,
  • fallal,
  • pressure level,
  • portmanteau,
  • yank,
  • wax light,
  • elaboration,
  • flick,
  • track,
  • eroding,
  • addition,
  • cloture,
  • dork,
  • fadeout,
  • conversation stopper,
  • cutting off,
  • pulmonary tuberculosis,
  • silky elm,
  • nosedive,
  • virgule,
  • ax,
  • pithiness,
  • chomp,
  • make out,
  • stick out,
  • resile,
  • conjunction,
  • fall,
  • heavy,
  • succinctness,
  • reserve,
  • turmoil,
  • solidus,
  • jerking,
  • deductive reasoning,
  • minimise,
  • drawing,
  • compendious,
  • curriculum,
  • force,
  • edit,
  • sign,
  • opposite word,
  • parsimony,
  • radical,
  • embarrass,
  • crinkle,
  • enfeeble,
  • plunk,
  • head-shrinker,
  • knickknack,
  • carry,
  • recant,
  • replacement,
  • thinning,
  • strain,
  • vignette,
  • have,
  • interference,
  • constringe,
  • scripture,
  • pack together,
  • conjunctive,
  • rationalize,
  • touch,
  • magnetic variation,
  • caesarean delivery,
  • trim back,
  • mash,
  • saving,
  • taking into custody,
  • niggardliness,
  • cesarean,
  • subtract,
  • curtail,
  • chalk out,
  • rear of barrel,
  • dwindling away,
  • superior,
  • turn out,
  • fall in,
  • abbreviate,
  • infarct,
  • corroding,
  • nip,
  • combine,
  • hieroglyphical,
  • impasse,
  • transfer,
  • thresh about,
  • deriving,
  • classy,
  • trend,
  • trinket,
  • trim,
  • stypsis,
  • lump,
  • variance,
  • pressing,
  • flash back,
  • dead end,
  • derogate,
  • curing,
  • drying up,
  • pay,
  • let down,
  • crack up,
  • snarf,
  • settling,
  • expenditure,
  • watchword,
  • drainpipe,
  • cut of meat,
  • discount,
  • declivity,
  • thinly,
  • adumbrate,
  • behave,
  • gulp,
  • secession,
  • eclipsis,
  • stabbing,
  • ebb down,
  • ailment,
  • lineation,
  • sum-up,
  • flimsy,
  • ob,
  • raw,
  • higher-up,
  • staunch,
  • compilation,
  • var.,
  • hamper,
  • seize with teeth,
  • separatrix,
  • transfiguration day,
  • hitch,
  • modulation,
  • hook,
  • handicap,
  • tweet,
  • infer,
  • swerve,
  • deterioration,
  • equivalent word,
  • upheaval,
  • lockjaw,
  • assume,
  • suppression,
  • carving,
  • preventative,
  • tweak,
  • make,
  • butter-flower,
  • imprint,
  • plug,
  • relief,
  • programme,
  • put up,
  • exception,
  • eating away,
  • nonobjective,
  • sport,
  • sting,
  • haul,
  • shibboleth,
  • debilitative,
  • bauble,
  • lull,
  • band,
  • candle,
  • word class,
  • stopple,
  • wither,
  • missive,
  • swing,
  • closedown,
  • crumple,
  • caesarean section,
  • travail,
  • use,
  • congenital disorder,
  • snip,
  • adhesive friction,
  • magnetic declination,
  • reliever,
  • discussion,
  • balk,
  • transmutation,
  • take off,
  • squinch,
  • brown oak,
  • melt off,
  • sign on,
  • tipple,
  • stroke,
  • bible,
  • space capsule,
  • shrink back,
  • root,
  • halter,
  • miniaturisation,
  • turn down,
  • trounce,
  • welt,
  • withering,
  • nobble,
  • verse,
  • chromosomal mutation,
  • closing,
  • nascency,
  • deliver,
  • block off,
  • suck,
  • poorly,
  • undercut,
  • congenital abnormality,
  • childbed,
  • block,
  • give birth,
  • prow,
  • lancinating,
  • dollar volume,
  • jolt,
  • stalk,
  • collation,
  • thinned,
  • preventive,
  • waste pipe,
  • passage,
  • holy writ,
  • scrunch,
  • catch,
  • belittle,
  • strangle,
  • gewgaw,
  • subatomic particle,
  • crack,
  • showstopper,
  • endure,
  • whip,
  • slogan,
  • kingcup,
  • legal transfer,
  • connexion,
  • corpuscle,
  • letting down,
  • department,
  • stymy,
  • desiccation,
  • great depression,
  • twitch,
  • sucking,
  • debilitate,
  • declaration,
  • changeover,
  • draw in,
  • cabbage,
  • slender,
  • jerky,
  • variate,
  • knifelike,
  • handwriting,
  • cave in,
  • stave wood,
  • contract bridge,
  • subdivision,
  • encumbrance,
  • stultification,
  • furrow,
  • draft,
  • tug,
  • manner of speaking,
  • go down,
  • sharpen,
  • palliation,
  • give,
  • seam,
  • make it,
  • declination,
  • take,
  • fore,
  • recessional,
  • crash,
  • liquidity crisis,
  • ebb out,
  • restricting,
  • anxious,
  • break down,
  • buttercup,
  • pull,
  • constrictive,
  • set,
  • connector,
  • show-stopper,
  • credit crunch,
  • surgical incision,
  • shorten,
  • chemical compound,
  • diving,
  • sign up,
  • fragile,
  • honkytonk,
  • point,
  • countersign,
  • tow,
  • simmpleness,
  • limiting,
  • thick,
  • give-and-take,
  • variety,
  • schema,
  • uterine cervix,
  • deduce,
  • eastern time,
  • alphabetic character,
  • wick,
  • tightfistedness,
  • emasculated,
  • lour,
  • understate,
  • compress,
  • die away,
  • diagonal,
  • squeeze play,
  • shoplifting,
  • compactness,
  • obstructer,
  • jargon,
  • swipe,
  • lop,
  • ease off,
  • contain,
  • vellicate,
  • usance,
  • sink,
  • caesarian delivery,
  • toss,
  • glower,
  • force per unit area,
  • drooping,
  • corner,
  • clinical depression,
  • obstructor,
  • innate,
  • uptake,
  • mown,
  • gelded,
  • worsening,
  • abide,
  • press,
  • sheer,
  • moistening,
  • goldcup,
  • stomach,
  • check,
  • synonymousness,
  • paradigm,
  • capsulize,
  • bosom,
  • badly,
  • dress,
  • rear of tube,
  • liberalisation,
  • stem turn,
  • blood relation,
  • cut off,
  • modify,
  • press clipping,
  • faded,
  • abate,
  • deputise,
  • convulse,
  • withhold,
  • condense,
  • decline in quality,
  • stinger,
  • use of goods and services,
  • division,
  • deputize,
  • ceding back,
  • deterrent,
  • draw,
  • dilute,
  • block up,
  • embrace,
  • chunk,
  • root word,
  • lather,
  • purloin,
  • tailor,
  • heavyset,
  • relaxation method,
  • caesarian section,
  • fade away,
  • ersatz,
  • sick,
  • price reduction,
  • capsulate,
  • good book,
  • wedge,
  • alter,
  • sharpness,
  • conciseness,
  • closeness,
  • recess,
  • faint,
  • course of study,
  • ease up,
  • ebb away,
  • chokepoint,
  • potation,
  • abjure,
  • checkers,
  • hang,
  • jot,
  • hold,
  • settle,
  • expanding upon,
  • strangling,
  • cringe,
  • wad,
  • raciness,
  • cognate word,
  • veer,
  • clip,
  • edged,
  • hardening,
  • curve,
  • excision,
  • monosyllabic word,
  • fertility rate,
  • red beech,
  • covenant,
  • pull back,
  • nativity,
  • exclusion,
  • phrase,
  • hasten,
  • dead-end street,
  • mutant,
  • get,
  • sullen,
  • white plague,
  • syncopation,
  • parsimoniousness,
  • prune,
  • conquest,
  • hack,
  • phthisis,
  • falloff,
  • slip,
  • stand-in,
  • trim down,
  • turn off,
  • calculus,
  • stuff,
  • wearing,
  • powder compact,
  • delineate,
  • rime,
  • immersion,
  • drop-off,
  • close,
  • get in,
  • take down,
  • obstruct,
  • resolution,
  • tinge,
  • limitation,
  • utility,
  • slack,
  • pitch,
  • disparagement,
  • squash,
  • gain,
  • wasting disease,
  • insect bite,
  • shank,
  • replace,
  • book,
  • extort,
  • plane section,
  • knitwork.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • closure,
  • stenography,
  • conspectus,
  • ellipsis,
  • syllabus,
  • obstipation,
  • diminish,
  • circumscription,
  • subsidence,
  • acronym,
  • dampening,
  • concision,
  • aposiopesis,
  • compendium,
  • dying off,
  • consolidation,
  • cutting,
  • solidification,
  • clipping,
  • embolus,
  • shutting up,
  • jerk,
  • constricting,
  • condensate,
  • de-escalation,
  • attenuation,
  • decrescence,
  • relaxation,
  • outline,
  • easing,
  • digest,
  • Phonography,
  • Languishment,
  • Telescoping,
  • wrinkle,
  • arrowhead,
  • depression,
  • tapering off,
  • abstract,
  • trimming,
  • imperviousness,
  • Crasis,
  • abatement,
  • Tachygraphy,
  • pressure,
  • dying,
  • ebbing,
  • decline,
  • letup,
  • lessen,
  • hourglass,
  • falling off,
  • deduct,
  • shorthand,
  • blind alley,
  • squeezing,
  • taper,
  • hieroglyphic,
  • mitigation,
  • miniaturization,
  • Brachygraphy,
  • collapse,
  • Puckering,
  • atrophy,
  • stopper,
  • contracting,
  • lowering,
  • alleviation,
  • synopsis,
  • obstruction,
  • cul de sac,
  • apocope,
  • tapering,
  • retraction,
  • impermeability,
  • Imperforation,
  • script,
  • wane,
  • slackening,
  • speedwriting,
  • depreciation,
  • neck,
  • simplicity,
  • bottleneck,
  • cervix,
  • cut back,
  • scaling down,
  • occlusion,
  • infarction,
  • Angustation,
  • declension,
  • Keddah,
  • summary,
  • labor pain,
  • concretion,
  • moving backwards,
  • extenuation,
  • consumption,
  • ebb,
  • blind corner,
  • hindrance,
  • isthmus,
  • Abbreviature,
  • coarctation,
  • devaluation,
  • word,
  • caecum,
  • weakening,
  • letter,
  • fade out,
  • blockade,
  • contracture,
  • sagging,
  • knitting,
  • Damping,
  • Decurtation,
  • initialism,
  • capsule,
  • compressing,
  • pruning,
  • cut,
  • syneresis,
  • systole.

Paraphrases for Contraction:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    shrinkage.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    diminution, reduction, shortening, shrinking.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    constriction.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    austerity, celebration, collapse, commemoration, compression, concentration, constraint, contractile, erosion, retreat, stricture, stringency, challenges, slow-down.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    contract, contracting, contracture, crunch, curtailment, deceleration, decline, decrease, deflation, downsizing, downturn, drop, fall, narrowing, recession, retrenchment, slowdown, slowing, slump, squeeze, tightening, twitch, weakening, meltdown, drawdown.

Homophones for Contraction:

• counterstain, contract in, counteraction, chondrichthian.

Hypernym for Contraction:

• n.

  • act
    tetanus, uterine contraction, contracture, Braxton-hicks Contraction, vaginismus, false labor.

Hyponym for Contraction:

• n.

  • act
    diminution, decrease, shortening, reduction, step-down.
  • communication
    word.