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precontraction

adj

Etymology

From pre- + contraction.

  1. derived from *dʰregʰ-✻ — “to drag, pull; to run”
  2. derived from contractiō — “a drawing together, contraction; abridgement, shortening; dejection, despondency”
  3. derived from contraction
  4. inherited from contraccioun
  5. prefixed as precontraction — “pre + contraction”

Definitions

  1. Prior to contraction

  2. A contraction prior to another process

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for precontraction. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA