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      compress
      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.
      A machine for compressing.
      verb
      (transitive) To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.
      (transitive) To condense into a more economic, easier format.
      (computing, transitive) To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.
      (intransitive) To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format.
      (transitive) To abridge.
      (physics, transitive) To make a pulse or particle bunch shorter by applying dispersion to it.
      (obsolete) To embrace sexually.
      Roots
      premo-press · Latin · press
      Synonyms for compress
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