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contrair
contrair
Portuguese
Verb
contrair (first-person singular present indicative contraio, past participle contraído)
- (takes a reflexive pronoun, intransitive) to contract (to draw together; to become shorter or narrower)
- (takes a reflexive pronoun, transitive) to contract (to cause to contract)
- (grammar, intransitive) to contract (to become shorter by omitting some phonemes)
- (transitive) to contract (to acquire an illness)
- (transitive) to acquire (to come to have)
Conjugation
Conjugation of the Portuguese -ir verb contrair