Contraction

[Sarah]

The act or process of contracting, shortening, or
shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction of the heart,
of the pupil of the eye, or of a tendion; the contraction produced by
cold.

[Luis Fok]

short for contradictory actions

[Monty]

The process of becoming smaller.

[Magaret]

A shortening of the uterine muscles occurring at intervals before and during childbirth.

[Renato]

A word or group of words resulting from shortening an original form.

[Little_Girl]

A way to [combine] to perhaps unrelated words in a way that [combines] their meanings to some capacity and creates a whole [new word] with a compounded meaning.
A process by which larger things such as phrases or multiple words become smaller, such as a single word.

[Julene]

the fact of something becoming smaller or shorter: