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Synonyms for compress

Grammar : Verb
Spell : verb kuhm-pres; noun kom-pres
Phonetic Transcription : verb kəmˈprɛs; noun ˈkɒm prɛs

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Définition of compress

Origin :
  • late 14c., "to press (something) together," from Old French compresser "compress, put under pressure," from Latin compressare "to press together," frequentative of comprimere "to squeeze," from com- "together" (see com-) + premere "to press" (see press (v.1)). Related: Compressed; compressing.
  • verb compact, condense
Example sentences :
  • Compress and relax the skin repeatedly while immersed in both these baths.
  • Extract from : « Taxidermy » by Leon Luther Pray
  • They can but compress it within moderate and tolerable limits.
  • Extract from : « Short Studies on Great Subjects » by James Anthony Froude
  • I do not know how people manage to compress themselves into stones like that.
  • Extract from : « In Convent Walls » by Emily Sarah Holt
  • The assistant is to follow the knife with his finger and compress the vessels.
  • Extract from : « A Manual of the Operations of Surgery » by Joseph Bell
  • A waistcoat made so tight as slightly to compress the bowels and stomach.
  • Extract from : « Zoonomia, Vol. II » by Erasmus Darwin
  • Direct the assistant to compress the vein at the root of the ear.
  • Extract from : « The Elements of Bacteriological Technique » by John William Henry Eyre
  • It is wonderful how much thought will compress itself into a minute.
  • Extract from : « The Kopje Garrison » by George Manville Fenn
  • I found him holding a compress on the severed vessel and greatly alarmed.
  • Extract from : « Religion and Lust » by James Weir
  • The water for the sheet, compress and bath should not be lower than 65°.
  • Extract from : « Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms » by Charles Munde
  • Compress the carotid, and you obtain the clouding-over of the intellect.
  • Extract from : « The Mind and the Brain » by Alfred Binet

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