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compresscompress1 /kəmˈprɛs/ verb ETYMOLOGYcompress1Origin: 1300-1400 Late Latin compressare to press hard, from Latin comprimere to compress VERB TABLEcompress |
| Present | I, you, we, they | compress | | he, she, it | compresses | | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | compressed | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have compressed | | he, she, it | has compressed | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had compressed | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will compress | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have compressed |
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| Present | I | am compressing | | he, she, it | is compressing | | you, we, they | are compressing | | Past | I, he, she, it | was compressing | | you, we, they | were compressing | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been compressing | | he, she, it | has been compressing | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been compressing | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be compressing | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been compressing |
THESAURUSheavy weight► press to put pressure or weight on something to make it flat, crush it, etc.: The crop is then gathered and the grapes are pressed. ► squash to press something and damage it by making it flat: Put the tomatoes where they won’t get squashed. ► crush to press something very hard so that it is broken or destroyed: His leg was crushed between the car and the wall. ► mash to press fruit or cooked vegetables until they are soft and smooth: Mash the potatoes well. ► grind to press and cut something into small pieces or powder using a special machine: The flour used to be ground between these two circular stones. ► squeeze to press something from both sides, usually with your fingers: Squeeze the toothpaste tube from the bottom. ► pinch to press someone’s skin between your finger and thumb: Mom! Anna pinched me, and it really hurt! ► compress formal to press something so that it takes up less space: The pump compresses the air, forcing it through a tube into the tire. ► compact formal to press something together so that it becomes smaller or more solid: The machine compacts household trash. 1[intransitive, transitive] to press something or make it smaller so that it takes up less space, or to become smaller: Some computer file types compress more easily than others.compress something into something The garlic is dried and then compressed into a pill.► see thesaurus at press12[transitive usually passive] to reduce the amount of time that it takes for something to happen or be done: compress something into something Three years of training were compressed into 18 months.3[transitive] to write or express something using fewer words: The play has been compressed from a huge book. [Origin: 1300–1400 Late Latin compressare to press hard, from Latin comprimere to compress]—compressible adjective |