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Synonyms for contraction
The synonym for contraction recorded in this bank is compression, in the sense "the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for contraction
- compressionnoun, in the sense "the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and contraction carries one sense so far.
the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together
The contraction of a gas on cooling.
The true synonym
compression
Same sentence, swapped: The compression of a gas on cooling.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where contraction stands in the sentence above.
- clipping
- shorthand
- weakening
Where contraction turns up in the game
contraction is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
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