- com·presscompress (verb) · compresses (third person present) · compressed (past tense) · compressed (past participle) · compressing (present participle)
- flatten by pressure; squeeze or press:"the skirt can be folded and compressed into a small bag"
- be squeezed or pressed together or into a smaller space:"the land is sinking as the soil compresses"
- squeeze or press (two things) together:"Violet compressed her lips together grimly"
- express in a shorter form; abridge:"in this chapter we compress into summary form the main findings"
- computingalter the form of (data) to reduce the amount of storage necessary.
Originlate Middle English: from Old French compresser or late Latin compressare, frequentative of Latin comprimere, from com- ‘together’ + premere ‘to press’; or directly from compress- ‘pressed together’, from the verb comprimere.Similar and Opposite Wordsverb- flatten by pressure; squeeze or press:
- squeeze or press (two things) together:
- express in a shorter form; abridge:
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