Dictionary Entry
compress
compress is a 8-letter English word with 6 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To press or squeeze together; to force into a narrower compass; to reduce the volume of by pressure; to compact; to condense; as, to compress air or water. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 17 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To press or squeeze together; to force into a narrower compass; to reduce the volume of by pressure; to compact; to condense; as, to compress air or water.
- 2transitive verb
To embrace sexually.
- 3noun
A folded piece of cloth, pledget of lint, etc., used to cover the dressing of wounds, and so placed as, by the aid of a bandage, to make due pressure on any part.
- 4noun
a cloth pad or dressing (with or without medication) applied firmly to some part of the body (to relieve discomfort or reduce fever)
- 5verb
squeeze or press together
"she compressed her lips"
"the spasm contracted the muscle"
- 6verb
make more compact by or as if by pressing
"compress the data"
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