contracted

[con·tract]

Something contracted has shrunk or become smaller. Your pupils tend to be contracted in bright sunlight.

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Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun.

Adjective
reduced in size or pulled together; "the contracted pupils of her eyes"


imp. & p. p.
of Contract

a.
Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun.

a.
Narrow; illiberal; selfish; as, a contracted mind; contracted views.

a.
Bargained for; betrothed; as, a contracted peace.


Contracted

Con*tract"ed , a. 1. Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun. 2. Narrow; illiberal; selfish; as, a contracted mind; contracted views. 3. Bargained for; betrothed; as, a contracted peace.
Inquire me out contracted bachelors.

Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun.

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Usage Examples

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.

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Other Usage Examples

We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a government operation right in the heart of Washington next door to the Holocaust Museum.

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