ELASTICISES Antonyms

• a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law

• (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make

• a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid

• enter into a contractual arrangement

• engage by written agreement

• squeeze or press together

• be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness

• become smaller or draw together

• make smaller

• compress or concentrate

• make or become more narrow or restricted

• reduce in scope while retaining essential elements

• cause to take on a definite and clear shape

• make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear

• cause to form crystals or assume crystalline form

• assume crystalline form; become crystallized

• informal terms for a difficult situation

• something craved, especially an intravenous injection of a narcotic drug

• the act of putting something in working order again

• an exemption granted after influence (e.g., money) is brought to bear

• a determination of the place where something is

• restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken

• cause to be firmly attached

• decide upon or fix definitely

• prepare for eating by applying heat

• take vengeance on or get even

• set or place definitely

• kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study

• make fixed, stable or stationary

• make infertile

• influence an event or its outcome by illegal means

• put (something somewhere) firmly

• make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc

• to be about to do something

• become hard or harder

• make hard or harder

• harden by reheating and cooling in oil

• make healthy

• cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate

• become rigid

• make rigid and set into a conventional pattern

• make solid or more solid; cause to solidify

• become solid

• become stiff or stiffer

• make stiff or stiffer

• severely restrict in scope or extent

• become taut or tauter

• make taut or tauter

• make tight or tighter

• become tight or tighter

• severely restrict in scope or extent

• narrow or limit