Usually means: Exerting pressure, reducing volume, squeezing.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word compressive:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. compressive: Merriam-Webster
  2. compressive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. compressive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. compressive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Compressive, compressive: Wordnik
  6. compressive: Wiktionary
  7. compressive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. compressive: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Compressive, compressive: Dictionary.com
  10. Compressive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Compressive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. compressive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Compressive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. compressive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. compressive: FreeDictionary.org
  16. compressive: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. compressive: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. compressive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. compressive: Medical dictionary

(Note: See compressively as well.)

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