to contract
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4.3
- verb
- /kənˈtrækt/
:
contraer
- I contracted the disease and lost my baby.
- risk of contracting
- high risk of contracting
- contract a disease
She later learned she had contracted meningitis.
- She later learned she had contracted meningitis.
- That doesn't mean that you're for sure going to contract HIV, especially if you're very protected.
- Like a global pandemic, like a terrible illness that you contract, like the death of a loved one.
- And So what they found was that folks who contracted COVID were more likely to go out to eat.
Examples
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The response by individuals to try to prevent contracting the disease, however, was somewhat limited.
Academic text (2012) -
Young stonemasons are at a high risk of contracting the condition.
Academic text (2015) -
And So what they found was that folks who contracted COVID were more likely to go out to eat.
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My mother had contracted the virus.
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Often the boys would contract it anyway and then be separated from the other pupils.
Academic text (1991) -
And then once once COVID hit, I had two drivers that contracted COVID.
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By the time they arrived, the second child, only three years old, had contracted diphtheria.
Fiction book (1999) -
Simone may have contracted a virus.
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She later learned she had contracted meningitis.
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After visiting the hospital, I realized that I had contracted a rare illness.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To receive something, for example by buying it or finding it
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5.6
To become sick suddenly
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3.0
Begin to feel ill
Antonyms
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Formal
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6.7
An agreement among people to give up some freedoms for safety and order
- Formal
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3.6
Failure to do what a contract requires, for example not delivering goods or not paying
- Formal
5
2.7
A written agreement between an employer and an employee that says the job rules and pay
- Formal
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2.8
An agreement between workers and their employer that says pay, benefits and work rules
- Specialized
5
3.6
A written agreement two people sign before they marry about money and property
- Formal
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3.2
A formal offer from an employer to hire someone with specific pay and terms
- Specialized
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4.1
Law that deals with agreements and the duties people or businesses have to each other
- Specialized
3
6.2
An agreement to trade things such as oil or shares at a fixed price on a future date
- Specialized
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6.7
A contract that pays a contractor for all costs plus an agreed fee or percentage
- Formal
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3.3
A legal agreement between a buyer and a seller that explains the terms of a sale
- Specialized
An agreement between two people or groups where each promises something to the other
- Formal
An agreement that only starts to have effect if a certain event happens
- Specialized
A standard contract that gives one party little power to change the terms and favors the stronger party
- Formal
A formal written agreement signed with a special stamp that has stronger force in law
- Formal
An agreement where one or both sides must act only if an uncertain event happens
- Formal
An agreement that depends on the result of a bet and cannot be enforced by a court
- Formal
A court order that makes someone pay when they unfairly benefit without an agreement
- Specialized
An agreement that a buyer must buy all of a product from one supplier
- Specialized
An agreement in which a seller must sell all its products to one buyer who has to buy them
- Formal
An agreement with separate parts so one broken part does not cancel the rest
A formal agreement signed and sealed by the people involved, often with a wax seal
- Formal
A contract where one person promises and the other accepts by doing something
How Sick
Surface Forms
Etymology
Contract comes from con- 'together' and tract 'to pull', and a helpful way to remember the disease sense is to think of 'pulling in' an illness, like you 'catch' it. So to contract a disease is to take the illness into your body.