Compress is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for COMPRESS in dictionary:

VERB:
• to compact
• flatten by pressure; squeeze or press
• be squeezed or pressed together or into a smaller space
• having a narrow shape as if flattened, especially sideways
• squeeze or press (two things) together
• express in a shorter form; abridge
• reduce the dynamic range of (a sound signal).
• alter the form of (data) to reduce the amount of storage necessary.
• squeeze together
• To press or squeeze together; to force into a narrower compass; to reduce the volume of by pressure; to compact; to condense; as, to compress air or water.
• To embrace sexually.
• make more compact by or as if by pressing
• squeeze or press together
NOUN:
• a pad of lint or other absorbent material pressed on to part of the body to relieve inflammation or stop bleeding
• A folded piece of cloth, pledget of lint, etc., used to cover the dressing of wounds, and so placed as, by the aid of a bandage, to make due pressure on any part.
• a cloth pad or dressing (with or without medication) applied firmly to some part of the body (to relieve discomfort or reduce fever)
• pad applied to stop bleeding or cool inflammation

Words related to COMPRESS

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Words that contain COMPRESS

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How to use COMPRESS in a sentence

• It would not be easy or interesting to attempt to compress the details of a long war of seven years in a single lecture.
• It is not my object in this paper to attempt to compress the political and military history of the United States during the memorable administration of Mr.
• He may knit his brows to seem thoughtful and profound, or compress his lips to persuade his friends and himself that he has a strong will, but he can play no trick with his nose.
• On the other hand, it would be difficult to compress into so small a space so many words and expressions that are peculiarly characteristic of St.
• Let drain, shape by gathering the cloth together, compress and leave for a little.
• I will compress them within the narrowest compass they will bear, stating the general principle, but not all its limitations.
• I will therefore compress as much as possible what I wish to say, and frame my request in a few words.
• It has been demonstrated by experiments made in France that the power required to compress moist air is less than that for dry air.
• A table showing the power required to compress moist and dry air has been prepared from the data of M.
• It required great skill to compress the necessary baggage into the allotted space.
• Beneath this should be applied a compress of tar and tow or other material, and the whole tightened up and kept in position by means of the buckle and strap.
• America he warns against military despotism, advises a tonic of English iron, and a compress of British cotton, as sovereign against internal rupture.
• At last he remembered to compress his lips, and force the air through the compression.
• I shall compress into a small compass what remains to be told.
• Brickwork in mortar will always settle and compress to some extent.
• We compress the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing what they are.
• The overflow is then closed and head enough of water put on to compress the air in the empty jar down into half its volume.
• In the jar containing cotton the water has not risen so high, there being not so much air to compress, and comes to rest on the line, C.
• The press has two long-stroke rams, LL, of small diameter, to compress the loose material, and two short-stroke rams, FF, of large diameter, to give the final squeeze.
• The rams in rising compress the material into a small cell or box, situated above the box in which raw cotton is thrown.
• In its some 400 lines, he has managed to compress more of his feelings and thoughts than would fill an ordinary autobiography.
• But I will not try to compress into a few sentences the character of the sage, who, as a Frenchman expressed it, snatched the lightning from the sky and the sceptre from a tyrant.
• If one compress is not large enough to cover the entire wound, use the second bandage.
• Slip under the compress and over the artery a small stone.
• In the same space it would have been difficult to compress more absurd concession and of ruinous restraint.
• A person, for instance, whilst threading a needle, may be seen to compress his lips and either to stop breathing, or to breathe as quietly as possible.
• I shall compress them into as small a body as I possibly can, having already debated that matter at large, when the question was before the committee.
• As the leaves become hot he uses a flat piece of wood, in order that he may more effectually compress them.
• One stout screw press, to compress the fibre before it is submitted to the hydraulic press.
• He had been obliged to compress his broad vision into a narrow window of detection.
• Ten times a day had Lionel to curb his outraged feelings, and compress his lips to stop the retort that would rise bubbling up within them.
• The attempt to compress infinite issues in a space too little has altered and, as some critics think, degraded the whole tenor of public life.

Similar words containing MPRES without suffix s and without prefix co

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