Contract and Hold

Contract

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

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Hold and contract are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Hold" instead the word "Contract" as a verb or a noun.

Hold verb - To have or keep in one's hands.

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Contract and hold are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Contract" instead the word "Hold" as a verb or a noun.

Nearby Words: holding, holder, holdback

old	old contract	old hold
good	good contract	good hold
full	full contract	full hold
better	better contract	better hold
Other adjectives: original, many, legitimate, proper, single, exclusive, actual, entire, massive, large, big, huge, illegal, final, indefinite, last, giant, magical.

kind	contract kind	hold kind
body	contract body	hold body

Conversely, Carmilla wriggles out of another student's attempt to hold her to a similar contract via the loophole that what she put underneath the document wasn't her actual signature, and was in fact a disguised 'Hell No' and she fully intended to screw the other party over to begin with.

Source: Magically Binding Contract
Her muscles contract and get denser, so even her strongest teammate can't hold her down.

Source: Hulking Out
If you talk to Nazir about the contract, he states that there were multiple contracts on him, so they had to hold a lottery to see which one would actually be honored.

Source: Giftedly Bad

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