•To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.•To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.•To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease.•To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.•To betroth; to affiance.•To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.•To be drawn together so as to be diminished in size or extent; to shrink; to be reduced in compass or in duration; as, iron contracts in cooling; a rope contracts when wet.•To make an agreement; to covenant; to agree; to bargain; as, to contract for carrying the mail.•Contracted; as, a contract verb.•Contracted; affianced; betrothed.•The agreement of two or more persons, upon a sufficient consideration or cause, to do, or to abstain from doing, some act; an agreement in which a party undertakes to do, or not to do, a particular thing; a formal bargain; a compact; an interchange of legal rights.•A formal writing which contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation.•The act of formally betrothing a man and woman.

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