contracting

The act of something that contracts or shrinks; contraction.

Adjective

  1. Getting smaller; drawing itself together into a smaller area.

Derived

noncontracting vasocontracting

Noun

  1. The act of something that contracts or shrinks; contraction.
    • the contractings of his muscles
  2. Work done on a contract basis.

Forms

contractings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of contract