| Main Entry: | contraction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | drawing in; shortening |
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abbreviating, abbreviation, abridging, abridgment, compression, condensation, condensing, confinement, confining, constriction, curtailing, curtailment, cutting down, decrease, decreasing, deflating, deflation, diminishing, diminution, drawing together, dwindling, elision, evaporating, evaporation, lessening, lopping, narrowing, omission, omitting, receding, recession, reducing, reduction, shrinkage, shrinking, shrivelling, tensing, tightening, withdrawal, withdrawing |
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amplification, dilation, enlargement, expansion, extension, increase, lengthening, spread, stretch |
| Main Entry: | omission |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something forgotten or excluded |
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blank, breach, break, cancellation, carelessness, chasm, cutting out, default, disregard, disregardance, elimination, elision, excluding, exclusion, failing, failure, forgetfulness, gap, hiatus, ignoring, inadvertence, inadvertency, lack, lacuna, lapse, leaving out, missing, neglect, noninclusion, overlook, overlooking, oversight, passing over, preclusion, preterition, pretermission, prohibition, repudiation, skip, slighting, slip, withholding |
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addition, inclusion, insertion, remembrance |
| Main Entry: | omission |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
disbarred, excluded, excluding, exclusive, inadmissible, not included in, unrecounted
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| Concept: | Contraction. |
| Category: | 1. GENERAL DIMENSIONS |
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-nouns
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.
-verbs
become small, become smaller; lessen, decrease; grow less, dwindle, shrink, contract, narrow, shrivel, collapse, wither, lose flesh, wizen, fall away, waste, wane, ebb; decay (deteriorate)., be smaller than, fall short of; not come up to (be inferior)., render smaller, lessen, diminish, contract, draw in, narrow, coarctate; boil down; constrict, constringe; condense, compress, squeeze, corrugate, crush, crumple up, warp, purse up, pack, stow; pinch, tighten, strangle; cramp; dwarf, bedwarf; shorten; circumscribe; restrain., pare, reduce, attenuate, rub down, scrape, file, grind, chip, shave, shear.
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Antonyms: |
expansion |
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