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)

  1. (takes a reflexive pronoun, intransitive) to contract (to draw together; to become shorter or narrower)
  2. (takes a reflexive pronoun, transitive) to contract (to cause to contract)
  3. (grammar, intransitive) to contract (to become shorter by omitting some phonemes)
  4. (transitive) to contract (to acquire an illness)
  5. (transitive) to acquire (to come to have)

Conjugation

Scots

Preposition

contrair

  1. against; in opposition to
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