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contagious, adj. catching, communicable, transmit-table, transmissible, transferable, inoculable, infectious, zymotic; spreadable, Obs. taking, spreading, carrying, Vet. Med. epizootic; epidemic, epidemical, pandemic, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmatical, miasmic, pestilential.

contain, v. 1. hold, receive, admit, carry, seat; accommodate, have capacity for, be capable of holding.
2. comprise, include, comprehend, embrace, subsume, take in, incorporate, embody; enclose, encircle, envelop, enfold, encompass, compass; cover, take into account or consideration, involve.
3. restrain, control, keep under control, hold back, bind; repress, suppress, stifle; check, keep in check, Both Sl. keep the lid on, place the lid on, curb, halt, limit.

contaminate, v. defile, befoul, pollute, corrupt, foul, spoil; sully, taint, soil, besmirch, begrime; infect, poison, envenom, empoison, canker; vitiate, debase, adulterate; deprave, pervert, debauch, degrade, dishonor.

contamination, n. 1. corruption, pollution, befoul-ment, defilement; infection, poisoning, contagion, septicity; vitiation, debasement, adulteration; degradation, perversion, depravation, debauchment.
2. uncleanness, foulness, impurity, filthiness; de
pravity, debauchery, dissipation.

contemn, v. 1. disdain, scorn, despise, misprize, show contempt for, view with contempt, hold in contempt, snap one's fingers at, turn up one's nose at, spurn, slight, snub, shun.
2. deprecate, vituperate, disparage, reproach, censure, decry, condemn, vilify; consider beneath oneself, look down on or upon, Sl. put down.

contemplate, v. 1. watch, keep an eye on, keep a vigil, rivet one's eye upon, stare at, gaze at, view, look at; attend, pay attention to, mind, heed; observe, regard, eye, peer, pry; survey, reconnoiter, scrutinize, scan, examine, inspect; witness, see, notice, note.
2. meditate, muse, ponder, brood, mull over, dwell on; reflect, cogitate, rack one's brains, cudgel one's brains, ruminate, chew over, chew one's cud, be in a brown study; think about or over, cerebrate, put on one's thinking cap, be abstracted, be lost in thought; concentrate on, focus on, put one's mind to, have one's mind on; consider, deliberate, excogitate, take to heart, Archaic, perpend; revolve, review, turn over, weigh, evaluate, study, con; wonder about, speculate, surmise, suppose, conjecture, theorize, hypothesize.
3. purpose, intend, aim, project, destine, mean; have in view, envisage, envision, visualize, dream of, aspire to, look forward to, imagine, fancy; conceive, think up, have ideas about, Inf. dream up; devise, contrive, plan, scheme, plot, design, Obs. consult; frame, concoct, invent, brew, hatch.

contemplation, n. 1. watching, keeping an eye on, staring at, gazing at, viewing, looking at; attending, paying attention to, heeding; observation, observing, regarding, eyeing, peering, prying; surveyance, surveying, sighting, reconnaissance, reconnoitering, scrutini-zation, scrutinizing, scanning, examination, examining, inspection, inspecting; witnessing, seeing, noticing, noting, taking note.
2. meditating, musing, pondering, brooding, mulling over, dwelling on; reflecting, cogitating, ruminating, chewing over, chewing one's cud; thinking about or over, cerebrating, being lost in thought; concentrating on, focusing on, having one's mind on; considering, deliberation, deliberating, excogitation, excogitating, revolving, weighing, evaluation, evaluating, studying, conning; wondering about, speculation, speculating, surmising, supposing, conjecture, conjecturing, theorizing, hypothesizing.