contracept

vt.(使)避孕

词形变化

contracepted contracepting contracepts 三单 contracepts contracepting 现在分词 contracepted 过去式 contracepted 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To use contraception

    不及物

    … the facile assumption that we may be able to contracept our way to the Great Society.

  2. 2.

    To administer contraception, especially to a population of wild animals

    及物

词源

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.

来源:wiktionary