What is another word for contraction?
1355 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ kəntɹˈakʃən], [ kəntɹˈakʃən], [ k_ə_n_t_ɹ_ˈa_k_ʃ_ə_n]
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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)
Synonyms for Contraction:
n.
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- constrict,
- compact,
- shrink,
- contract,
- wax and wane.
- novelty,
- transubstantiation,
- mutation,
- variation,
- novelties,
- transition,
- transfiguration,
- turnover,
- turnovers,
- vicissitude,
- transformations,
- transmogrification.
- de cays,
- de cay,
- de-cays,
- de-cay,
- weakenings.
- 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.
- 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.
- compressings,
- abbreviatings,
- discountings,
- paring downs,
- marking downs,
- dis-counting,
- downsizings,
- diminishings,
- shrinkings,
- de-creasing,
- dietings,
- cutting downs,
- dis counting,
- condensings,
- de creasing,
- contractings.
- 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.
- grain salt,
- nono's,
- ball chain,
- re strictions,
- excess baggages,
- no nos,
- no no's,
- re striction,
- small difficulties,
- re-striction,
- re-strictions,
- nono.
Other synonyms:
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- 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.
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- substitute.
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- thin.
- 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.
- 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:
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Equivalence
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Noun, singular or mass
shrinkage.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Forward Entailment
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Noun, singular or mass
diminution, reduction, shortening, shrinking.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Reverse Entailment
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Noun, singular or mass
constriction.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Independent
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Noun, singular or mass
austerity, celebration, collapse, commemoration, compression, concentration, constraint, contractile, erosion, retreat, stricture, stringency, challenges, slow-down.
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Noun, singular or mass
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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.
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Noun, singular or mass
Homophones for Contraction:
- counterstain, contract in, counteraction, chondrichthian.
Hypernym for Contraction:
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Hyponym for Contraction:
n.
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act
diminution, decrease, shortening, reduction, step-down.
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communication
word.
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