- A formal agreement to cut down size - Become smaller or narrower - Binding agreement - formal legal promise - To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass;
to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action. - To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit. - To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a
habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease.