Pressed together closely, so as to occupy small space; pressed into a smaller volume and denser composition than the ordinary; condensed.

Pressed close together, compressed, contracted, confined. In Botany applied to a compact or dense panicle.

Of food or clothing: scanty, sparse, inadequate in size or measure.

Compressed.

= coarctate, adj.

That is or has been spanned or drawn tight.

Drawn together by constriction; narrowed, straitened.

That has been, or is, nipped (in various senses of nip, v.1); pinched, compressed, tightly squeezed.

Forcibly or unnaturally confined (physically), cramped.

With adverbs, as in, out, up.

Gripped or compressed tightly between any two surfaces, esp. between a finger and thumb; nipped, sharply squeezed. Also: †shaped as if tightly…

Crushed, crunched, squeezed, squashed. Also frequently with up.

With in.