Contract and Fold

Contract

Contract verb - To become affected with (a disease or disorder).

Fold and contract are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Fold" instead a verb "Contract".

Fold

Fold verb - To lay one part over or against another part of.

Contract and fold are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Contract" instead a verb "Fold".

Nearby Words: folded, folding

How words are described

individual individual contract individual fold
good good contract good fold
military military contract military fold

Common collocations

body contract body fold body

Both words in one sentence

  • Useful Notes / NASA A second contract of the program has Cygnus and Dragon returning to supply the ISS, plus an unmanned winged vehicle back under NASA's fold: Sierra Nevada Corporation's Dream Chaser Cargo spacecraft.
  • Useful Notes / Anne Boleyn Katherine's death in January 1536 made her even more vulnerable, as the Catholic world now saw Henry as unmarried; if only the 'concubine', as she was known, could be gotten rid of, Henry could contract a legal marriage and be returned to the fold.
  • Read the Fine Print In Shrek Forever After, Shrek says he carefully looked over Rumpelstiltskin's contract, but Donkey reveals that you have to fold the paper origami-style to find the fine print, and the Curse Escape Clause.
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