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Word: compress
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Meaning:
Noun:
- A machine for compressing
- 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.
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Verb:
- intransitive To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format.
- technology transitive To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.
- transitive To abridge.
- transitive To condense into a more economic, easier format.
- transitive To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.
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