contracept

present singular third person contracepts · participle present contracepting · participle past contracepted · past contracepted

1. intransitiveTo use contraception

   … 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

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   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

   it is also assumed that women who breastfeed being contracepting as soon as they stop breastfeeding unless the sum of the duration of breastfeeding and the duration of contraception is greater than the length of the interval from last birth to next conception

   1983, Toni Richards, Comparative analysis of fertility, breastfeeding, and contraception: a dynamic model, National Academies, page 27

2. transitiveTo administer contraception, especially to a population of wild animals