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contractive
[ kuhn-trak-tiv ]
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Other Words From
- con·tractive·ly adverb
- con·tractive·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of contractive1
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Example Sentences
The gas burner is made of a metal having great expansive and contractive properties.
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And the doctor, by sundry tests and applications, showed the peculiar exhausted and contractive condition of the muscles.
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For there are Bohemians even among gypsies; everything in this life being relative and socially-contractive.
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There must always be contractive elements, implicit or explicit, in a marriage; that was well recognized even by the Canonists.
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