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[ kuhm-prest ] / kəmˈprɛst / SEE SYNONYMS FOR compressed ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivepressed into less space; condensed: compressed gases. pressed together: compressed lips. flattened by or as if by pressure: compressed wallboard. Zoology, Botany. flattened laterally. Origin of compressedMiddle English word dating back to 1325–75; see origin at compress, -ed2 ANTONYMS FOR compressedSEE ANTONYMS FOR compressed ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM compressedcom·press·ed·ly, adverbsub·com·pressed, adjectiveun·com·pressed, adjectiveWords nearby compressedcomprehensible, comprehension, comprehensive, comprehensive school, compress, compressed, compressed air, compressed speech, compressibility, compression, compression cyanosis Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for compressedHis own, personal neck and chest were compressed by five other men until 43 years of life and spirit seeped away. The Day I Used Eric Garner’s Voice|Joshua DuBois|December 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST This continues until an impossibly huge amount of ice cream is compressed into the pint. Dr. Mike’s Makes the Best Ice Cream on Earth|Jane & Michael Stern|July 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST A high end audio system from 50 years ago sounds better than your degraded, compressed product. 25 Things I Want from an Online Music Service (and Almost Never Get)|Ted Gioia|June 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST The larger worlds—Jupiter and the other giants—are massive, made of compressed gas, and possess no surface to speak of. Mega-Earth Is the Weirdest Exoplanet Yet|Matthew R. Francis|June 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
That means they are composed of compressed gasses, with no solid surface. Could ‘Star Wars’ Be Right About Habitable Moons?|Matthew R. Francis|May 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST Head in front of the blow-hole high, and compressed anteriorly, the snout truncated. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7|Various Rising, with compressed lips he held toward Muskoka the butt of his pistol. The Young Railroaders|Francis Lovell Coombs Inside the annex to the lighthouse were the duplicate engines for filling tanks with compressed air. Some Naval Yarns|Mordaunt Hall Her lips were compressed in the old way that she had almost forgotten. Concerning Sally|William John Hopkins And his throat was compressed in those brown, lean, muscular fingers, as in a claw of steel. The Sign of the Spider|Bertram Mitford
British Dictionary definitions for compressed
adjectivesqueezed together or condensed (of the form of flatfishes, certain plant parts, etc) flattened laterally along the whole length Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to compressedabbreviate, shorten, restrict, wrap, cram, constrict, squeeze, shrink, consolidate, wedge, cramp, crowd, abridge, abstract, ram, reduce, decrease, summarize, crush, shrivel |