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Keywords: inflorescence, illiberal, appressed, shrunken, narrow

Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun.

Narrow; illiberal; selfish; as, a contracted mind; contracted views.

Narrow or dense inflorescences, the branches being appressed or short.

Keywords: betrothed, peace, bargained

Bargained for; betrothed; as, a contracted peace.

Keywords: flowerhead, bunched, pupils, grasses, axis

Closely bunched together as the flowerhead branches with the axis in some grasses.

reduced in size or pulled together; "the contracted pupils of her eyes"