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contracept

contracept verb: to use contraception.

Verb

contracept (third-person singular simple present contracepts, present participle contracepting, simple past and past participle contracepted)

  1. (intransitive) To use contraception
    • Through the wisdom of our legislators, only the intelligent may contracept, while the stupid are commanded to reproduce their kind.1932, Will Durant, R. Long, R.R. Smith, “On the meaning of life”, in Inc., page 121
    • … the facile assumption that we may be able to contracept our way to the Great Society.1965, Stephen J. Plank, quoted in “Professor Warns Against Assuming Birth Pill To Cure Population Boom”, The Harvard Crimson, January 05, 1966
  2. (transitive) To administer contraception, especially to a population of wild animals

Forms of contracept

third-person singular presentcontracepts
present participlecontracepting
past participlecontracepted
pastcontracepted

Origin of contracept

Back-formation from contraception. Attested US 1932, with earlier occasional use as abbreviation for contraceptive in the medical literature; popularized US mid-1960s in the context of the sexual revolution.

Questions about contracept

What does contracept mean?
Contracept means to use contraception.
What part of speech is contracept?
Contracept is a verb.
What is the past tense of contracept?
The past tense of contracept is contracepted.

Words near contracept in the dictionary

  1. contrabassoonists
  2. contrabassoons
  3. contrabassos
  4. contrabiotic
  5. contrabureaucratic
  6. contracept
  7. contracepted
  8. contracepting
  9. contraception
  10. contraceptional
  11. contraceptionism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: contracept (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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