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▸ verb: (intransitive) To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format.
▸ verb: (transitive) To condense into a more economic, easier format.
▸ verb: (transitive) To abridge.
▸ verb: (technology, transitive) To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.
▸ verb: (obsolete) To embrace sexually.
▸ noun: (medicine) A multiply folded piece of cloth, a pouch of ice, etc., used to apply to a patient's skin, cover the dressing of wounds, and placed with the aid of a bandage to apply pressure on an injury.
▸ noun: A machine for compressing.
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press,
constrict,
squeeze,
contract,
compact,
pack together,
impact,
condense,
squash,
squish,
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