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Contorting
- verb - twist and press out of shape
Contortion
- noun - a tortuous and twisted shape or position; "they built a tree house in the tortuosities of its boughs"; "the acrobat performed incredible contortions"
- the act of twisting or deforming the shape of something (e.g., yourself)
Contouring
- verb - form the contours of
Contraband
- adjective - distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes"
- goods whose importation or exportation or possession is prohibited by law
Contrabass
- adjective - largest and lowest member of the violin family
- pitched an octave below normal bass instrumental or vocal range; "contrabass or double-bass clarinet"
Contracted
- verb - be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness; "He got AIDS"; "She came down with pneumonia"; "She took a chill"
- become smaller or draw together; "The fabric shrank"; "The balloon shrank"
- compress or concentrate; "Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan"
- engage by written agreement; "They signed two new pitchers for the next season"
- enter into a contractual arrangement
- make or become more narrow or restricted; "The selection was narrowed"; "The road narrowed"
- make smaller; "The heat contracted the woollen garment"
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"
- reduced in size or pulled together; "the contracted pupils of her eyes"
- squeeze or press together; "she compressed her lips"; "the spasm contracted the muscle"
Contractor
- noun - (law) a party to a contract
- a bodily organ that contracts
- someone (a person or firm) who contracts to build things
- the bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps
Contradict
- verb - be in contradiction with
- be resistant to; "The board opposed his motion"
- deny the truth of
- prove negative; show to be false
Contraflow
- unknown - a temporary arrangement where traffic on a road is transferred from its usual side to share the other half of the carriageway with traffic moving in the opposite direction.