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contracting
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun contracting has 1 sense
- contracting(n = noun.act) catching - becoming infected; "catching cold is sometimes unavoidable"; "the contracting of a serious illness can be financially catastrophic" is a kind of acquiring, getting
Derived form verb contract4
CIDE DICTIONARY
contracting, n.
the act or process of acquiring an infectious disease; contraction; as, the contracting of a serious illness can be financially catastrophic. [WordNet 1.5]
ROGET THESAURUS
contracting
Contraction
N contraction, reduction, diminution, decrease of size, defalcation, decrement, lessening, shrinking, compaction, tabes, collapse, emaciation, attenuation, tabefaction, consumption, marasmus, atrophy, systole, neck, hourglass, condensation, compression, compactness, compendium, squeezing, strangulation, corrugation, astringency, astringents, sclerotics, contractility, compressibility, coarctation, inferiority in size, contracting, astringent, shrunk, contracted, strangulated, tabid, wizened, stunted, waning, neap, compact, unexpanded &c (expand), contractile, compressible, smaller &c (small).
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