Hyphenation of contracted

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word contracted ? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

con-tract-ed

Definitions of contracted :

1.	Reduced in size or pulled together The contracted pupils of her eyes

Synonyms of contracted :

adj	contracted, contractile, shrunk, shrunken, narrowed

Last hyphenations of this language

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