contractive
[kuh n-trak-tiv]
- serving or tending to contract.
- capable of contracting.
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Origin of contractive
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The gas burner is made of a metal having great expansive and contractive properties.
There must always be contractive elements, implicit or explicit, in a marriage; that was well recognized even by the Canonists.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 (of 6)Havelock Ellis
And the doctor, by sundry tests and applications, showed the peculiar exhausted and contractive condition of the muscles.
Master of His FateJ. Mclaren Cobban