contrair
Portuguese
    
    Etymology
    
Borrowed from Latin contrahere, with change of conjugation.
Verb
    
contrair (first-person singular present contraio, first-person singular preterite contraí, 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 contrair (irregular) (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
Scots
    
    Preposition
    
contrair
- against; in opposition to
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