compress
/kəmˈprɛs/
noun
- A soft pad or cloth pressed onto a part of the body to relieve pain or reduce swelling.
- The nurse applied a cold compress to his swollen ankle.
- She placed a warm compress on her forehead to ease the headache.
- Use a clean compress to stop the bleeding.
verb
- To press or squeeze something so that it takes up less space.
- The machine compresses the cardboard into tight bales for recycling.
- She compressed the sponge to remove the excess water.
- You can compress the file to make it easier to email.
- To express something in fewer words; to shorten or condense.
- The author compressed a decade of research into a single chapter.
- The news report compressed the complex event into a short summary.
- Can you compress your speech into just five minutes?
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