All compress synonyms
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C c verb compress
- compact β Compact things are small or take up very little space. You use this word when you think this is a good quality.
- abbreviate β If you abbreviate something, especially a word or a piece of writing, you make it shorter.
- shorten β to make short or shorter.
- restrict β to confine or keep within limits, as of space, action, choice, intensity, or quantity.
- wrap β to enclose in something wound or folded about (often followed by up): She wrapped her head in a scarf.
- cram β If you cram things or people into a container or place, you put them into it, although there is hardly enough room for them.
- constrict β If a part of your body, especially your throat, is constricted or if it constricts, something causes it to become narrower.
- squeeze β to press forcibly together; compress.
- shrink β to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance: to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.
- consolidate β If you consolidate something that you have, for example power or success, you strengthen it so that it becomes more effective or secure.
- wedge β a piece of hard material with two principal faces meeting in a sharply acute angle, for raising, holding, or splitting objects by applying a pounding or driving force, as from a hammer. Compare machine (def 3b).
- cramp β Cramp is a sudden strong pain caused by a muscle suddenly contracting. You sometimes get cramp in a muscle after you have been making a physical effort over a long period of time.
- crowd β A crowd is a large group of people who have gathered together, for example to watch or listen to something interesting, or to protest about something.
- abridge β to reduce the length of (a written work) by condensing or rewriting
- abstract β An abstract idea or way of thinking is based on general ideas rather than on real things and events.
- ram β random-access memory; computer memory available to the user for creating, loading, or running programs and for the temporary storage and manipulation of data, in which time of access to each item is independent of the storage sequence. As a storage medium, RAM is volatile, so its contents are lost when the power fails or is turned off.
- reduce β to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.: to reduce one's weight by 10 pounds.
- decrease β When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
- summarize β to make a summary of; state or express in a concise form.
- crush β To crush something means to press it very hard so that its shape is destroyed or so that it breaks into pieces.
- shrivel β shrink, dry up
- tighten β make more snug or secure
- dehydrate β When something such as food is dehydrated, all the water is removed from it, often in order to preserve it.
- squash β to press into a flat mass or pulp; crush: She squashed the flower under her heel.
- concentrate β If you concentrate on something, or concentrate your mind on it, you give all your attention to it.
- press β to force into service, especially naval or military service; impress.
- coagulate β When a liquid coagulates, it becomes very thick.
- bind β If something binds people together, it makes them feel as if they are all part of the same group or have something in common.
- contract β A contract is a legal agreement, usually between two companies or between an employer and employee, which involves doing work for a stated sum of money.
- stuff β the material of which anything is made: a hard, crystalline stuff.
- narrow β of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
- pack β a group of things wrapped or tied together for easy handling or carrying; a bundle, especially one to be carried on the back of an animal or a person: a mule pack; a hiker's pack.
- telescope β an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly; the other form (reflecting telescope) has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed. Compare radio telescope.
- syncopate β Music. to place (the accents) on beats that are normally unaccented. to treat (a passage, piece, etc.) in this way.
- condense β If you condense something, especially a piece of writing or speech, you make it shorter, usually by including only the most important parts.
- tamp β to force in or down by repeated, rather light, strokes: He tamped the tobacco in his pipe.
- summarise β to make a summary of; state or express in a concise form.
- boil down β When you boil down a liquid or food, or when it boils down, it is boiled until there is less of it because some of the water in it has changed into steam or vapour.
- densify β to make or become denser
noun compress
- pad β Packet Assembler/Disassembler
- wad β a soft, earthy, black to dark-brown mass of manganese oxide minerals.
- ice pack β pack ice.
- wrapping β something to be wrapped about the person, especially in addition to the usual indoor clothing, as a shawl, scarf, or sweater: an evening wrap.
- poultice β a soft, moist mass of cloth, bread, meal, herbs, etc., applied hot as a medicament to the body.