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Meanings of compress in English

Portuguese
comprimir
Catalan
compactar
Spanish
apretar

Squeeze or press together.

comprimir
Catalan
comprimir
Spanish
comprimir

Make more compact by or as if by pressing.

comprimir
Synonyms
Examples for "pack together"
Examples for "pack together"
1
Stephen slowly walked toward his tent and pulled his pack together.
Book Three: The Final Exodus
2
The pack together again, the alpha male back at its head.
The Guardian
3
The most important thing for our little pipsqueak is to keep her pack together.
Rock and Ice Magazine
4
The PUM repeats pack together to form a right-handed superhelix that approximates a half doughnut.
Pubmed
5
The lady Berenike had forthwith desired Johanna to pack together all the dead Korinna's festal dresses.
A Thorny Path — Volume 09

Any therapeutic material that is used to cover an injury.

Usage of compress in English
1
No sign of an end to the 'thou shalt not compress' zone.
For Honor We Stand
2
Nana retreated into the bathroom and returned with a paper towel compress.
Hula Done It?
3
It may not be possible to compress a clarinet solo any tighter.
Wired
4
This is on account of the inability to compress the hardened arteries.
Disturbances of the Heart / Discussion of the Treatment of the H...
5
Diverse resources combined in one sprite may be harder to compress well.
Even faster web sites
6
A compress of cold water round the throat with oilsilk over it.
Elster's Folly: A Novel
7
But it was impossible to compress all the work into that time.
The Secrets of the German War Office
8
I slip my hands into the straps on either end and compress.
Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world: a novel
9
I understand they can be asphyxiated through the application of a compress.'
Blood and Bone
10
Every hour or so he'd mash a revamped compress to my cheek.
Bones to Ashes
11
He gave me a stimulant without applying a compress to the arm.
Sixes and Sevens
12
That standard will even compress .jpg files, which themselves are already compressed.
Reuters
13
Not so bad, as long as we keep the cold compress on.
Pluck on the Long Trail; Or, Boy Scouts in the Rockies
14
Now she came forward with a cold compress for his abraded scalp.
Black Caesar's Clan : A Florida Mystery Story
15
As if you could compress my hatred into one little lying notebook.
The Ghost Ship
16
That given, as I can give it, I will try to compress.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 / A Magaz...
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Translations for compress
Compress through the time
Compress across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common