[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["an act or instance of contracting contractingor the quality or state of being contracted :The contraction of the ship’s metal fastenings and consequent snapping of the wood caused cracking sounds during the cold night.", "a shortened form of a word or group of words, with the omitted letters often replaced in written English by an apostrophe, ase'erforever, isn'tforis not, I'dfor I would.", "Physiology.the thickening and shortening of a muscle:Myosin is a protein in muscles, working together with actin to produce muscle contraction.one in an often rhythmic series of such muscular changes, especially in the wall of the uterus during labor:When I got to the hospital, my labor was in full force with only 10 seconds between contractions.", "the thickening and shortening of a muscle:Myosin is a protein in muscles, working together with actin to produce muscle contraction.", "one in an often rhythmic series of such muscular changes, especially in the wall of the uterus during labor:When I got to the hospital, my labor was in full force with only 10 seconds between contractions.", "a restriction or withdrawal, as of currency or of funds available as call money call money.", "a decrease in economic and industrial activity ( expansion ):The contraction that became the Great Depression began in the United States and spread around the globe."]}]