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Compress
COMPRESS, v.t. [L. To press. See Press.]
1. To press together by external force; to force, urge or drive into a narrower compass; to crowd; as, to compress air.
The weight of a thousand atmospheres will compress water twelve and a half per cent.
2. To embrace carnally.
3. To crowd; to bring within narrow limits or space.
Events of centuries--compressed within the compass of a single life.
COMPRESS, n. In surgery, a bolster of soft linen cloth, with several folds, used by surgeons to cover a plaster or dressing, to keep it in its place and defend the part from the external air.
compress appears in definitions for these words:
Air-gun Almond Almond-tree Ammodyte Ancipital Astrict Astricted Astricting Astriction Astrictive Astringe Astringed Astringing Basalt Blaast Bolster Choke Close Clutch Compress Compressed Compressibility Compressible Compressibleness Compression Compressive Concentration Condensable Condensate Condensation Condense Condensed Condenser Constriction Constringent Constringing Cross-stone Doree Elastic Elasticity Firm Gripe Halibut Headmold-shot Incompressibility Incompressible Kyanite Leap M Muse Musmon Mutter Nascal P Piezometer Pinch Pledget Pneumatic Polyneme Power Razor-fish Repeater Rickets Sanded Smack Squeeze Squeezed Squeezing Strangulated Strangulation Succinct Thrust Thumb Tight Tread Trepanning Uncompressed Uncrowded Violate Wasp Water Wedge Wedged Wedging Wind-gun Zoisite
Air-gun Almond Almond-tree Ammodyte Ancipital Astrict Astricted Astricting Astriction Astrictive Astringe Astringed Astringing Basalt Blaast Bolster Choke Close Clutch Compress Compressed Compressibility Compressible Compressibleness Compression Compressive Concentration Condensable Condensate Condensation Condense Condensed Condenser Constriction Constringent Constringing Cross-stone Doree Elastic Elasticity Firm Gripe Halibut Headmold-shot Incompressibility Incompressible Kyanite Leap M Muse Musmon Mutter Nascal P Piezometer Pinch Pledget Pneumatic Polyneme Power Razor-fish Repeater Rickets Sanded Smack Squeeze Squeezed Squeezing Strangulated Strangulation Succinct Thrust Thumb Tight Tread Trepanning Uncompressed Uncrowded Violate Wasp Water Wedge Wedged Wedging Wind-gun Zoisite
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