Contract and Go up

Contract

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

Go up is an antonym for contract.

Go up

Go up verb - Move upward.

Contract is an antonym for go up in increase topic.

Both terms in one sentence

  • Elevator Failure In of the Alex Rider novels, a contract killer kills his target by sabotaging his elevator, causing it to go up one floor higher than it normally would and then leaving a sophisticated hologram of the elevator in it's place, causing the target to step into the empty shaft and fall to his death.
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