transitive. To compress, condense.

To compress into small compass; to contract. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To catch between two surfaces or points; to pinch, bite, squeeze sharply. Also figurative.

transitive. To constrict.

To press together, to squeeze. a hollow thing, so as to make it of smaller capacity.

†(a) to constrict; (b) to restrain.

transitive. To press or draw together; to compress, constrict, contract, tighten.

transitive. To bring into a specified state, condition, or position by squeezing, pushing, pressing, or nipping.

To constrict painfully, as with an encircling cord. Also in wider sense: †To hurt by physical pressure; to pinch.

transitive. To nip.

transitive. To press, compress, squeeze; to crowd or heap together.

To compress.

transitive. To bind up, confine within narrow limits, compress; hence, to render costive.

transitive. To nip or pinch.

transitive. (from 1) To press together, compress. Obsolete.

To squeeze or compress together. rare.

transitive. To draw or squeeze together as by an encircling force; to compress; = constrict, v. 1 ? Obsolete.

transitive. To press close together, compress, contract, confine closely; = coarct, v.

transitive. To compress, confine.

To close or greatly narrow (a tube, etc.), by external constriction, as in the case of the paper tubes for fireworks, or

To force by pressure, compress. Obsolete exc. figurative.

figurative and transferred. To compress forcibly.

transitive. To thrust out or up, or bend, so as to form a ‘hunch’ or hump; to compress, bend, or arch convexly. Also without up.

transitive. To draw together as by tightening an encircling string; to make small or narrow (a tube or orifice); to contract, compress.

To press closely together; to pack; to compress. Also figurative.

To crush, tread crushingly upon; also, to squeeze into small compass; = crunch, v. 2.

transitive. In extended use. To wrap or tie something tightly around, esp. so as to compress, constrain, or constrict; (occasionally) spec. to…