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Contain Past Tense
The past tense of Contain is contained.
Rhymes with Contain
- st_germain
- legerdemain
- st_germaine
- preordain
- lamontagne
- lafountaine
- lafountain
- inhumane
- constrain
- restrain
- overtrain
- mcswain
- explain
- complain
- champlain
- aquitaine
- ukraine
- tremaine
- sylvain
- sustain
- spokane
- sartain
- retrain
- refrain
- profane
- partain
- mustain
- mundane
- mcwain
- mcshane
How do you pronounce contain?
Pronounce contain as kənˈteɪn.
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How do you spell contain? Is it countain ?
A common misspelling of contain is countain
Sentences with contain
1. Verb, non-3rd person singular present
They also protect the state's watersheds, which contain most of the state's fresh water.
2. Verb, base form
A growth and mutual fund may contain a mix of both stocks and bonds.
Quotes about contain
1. Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large -- I contain multitudes.
- Walt Whitman
2. I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.
- John Keats, Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
3. For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
- John Milton, Areopagitica
3. contain
verb. ['kənˈteɪn'] lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits.
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4. contain
verb. ['kənˈteɪn'] hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of.
