elision

Main Entry:
contraction [kuhn-trak-shuhn]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: drawing in; shortening
Synonyms: abbreviating, abbreviation, abridging, abridgment, compression, condensation, condensing, confinement, confining, constriction, curtailing, curtailment, cutting down, decrease, decreasing, deflating, deflation, diminishing, diminution, drawing together, dwindling, elision, evaporating, evaporation, lessening, lopping, narrowing, omission, omitting, receding, recession, reducing, reduction, shrinkage, shrinking, shrivelling, tensing, tightening, withdrawal, withdrawing
Antonyms: amplification, dilation, enlargement, expansion, extension, increase, lengthening, spread, stretch
Related Words
Main Entry: omission
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
disbarred, excluded, excluding, exclusive, inadmissible, not included in, unrecounted
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Contraction.
Category: 1. GENERAL DIMENSIONS
Synonyms:
-nouns
contraction, reduction, diminution; decrease of size; defalcation, decrement; lessening, shrinking; compaction; tabes, collapse, emaciation, attenuation, tabefaction, consumption, marasmus, atrophy; systole, neck, hourglass., condensation, compression, compactness; compendium; squeezing; strangulation; corrugation; astringency; astringents, sclerotics; contractility, compressibility; coarctation., inferiority in size.
-verbs
become small, become smaller; lessen, decrease; grow less, dwindle, shrink, contract, narrow, shrivel, collapse, wither, lose flesh, wizen, fall away, waste, wane, ebb; decay (deteriorate)., be smaller than, fall short of; not come up to (be inferior)., render smaller, lessen, diminish, contract, draw in, narrow, coarctate; boil down; constrict, constringe; condense, compress, squeeze, corrugate, crush, crumple up, warp, purse up, pack, stow; pinch, tighten, strangle; cramp; dwarf, bedwarf; shorten; circumscribe; restrain., pare, reduce, attenuate, rub down, scrape, file, grind, chip, shave, shear.
-adjectives
contracting; astringent; shrunk, contracted; strangulated, tabid, wizened, stunted; waning; neap, compact., unexpanded (expand [more]); contractile; compressible; smaller (small [more]).
Antonyms: expansion
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