Portuguese edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin contrahere, with change of conjugation.

Pronunciation edit

 
 

  • Hyphenation: con‧tra‧ir

Verb edit

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)

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Preposition edit

contrair

  1. against; in opposition to