Compresses is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for COMPRESSES in dictionary:

VERB:
• COMPRESS, to compact
• flatten by pressure; squeeze or press
• be squeezed or pressed together or into a smaller space
• 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.
NOUN:
• a pad of lint or other absorbent material pressed on to part of the body to relieve inflammation or stop bleeding

Words related to COMPRESSES

compress14 compressed17 compressing18

Words that contain COMPRESSES

decompresses19 recompresses18 uncompresses18 overcompresses23

How to use COMPRESSES in a sentence

• They did not stop climbing while Duane tore a scarf and made compresses, which he bound tightly over his wounds.
• But I feel that this prejudice against my race compresses my soul, narrows my political horizon and makes me feel that I am an alien in the land of my birth.
• The pump that compresses the air is on the engine, and keeps the pressure in the car and locomotive reservoirs automatically up to the required standard.
• A recoil has the effect of driving in the 4 inch piston and forcing the liquid into the other chamber, whose piston compresses the springs.
• She lay in her bed, cold compresses on her swollen face and shoulders, a bruised and broken thing, planning hideous reprisals.
• The water forced into the air chamber by the downward-moving piston compresses the air and increases its pressure.
• But taking a glance at the others of her late company of actors, she compresses her lips.
• At the same time the head, G, comes down on to the bale and compresses it still further, while the men are at work lashing it.
• A curious sonnet has been transmitted to us, where Agostino, like the ancient legislators, compresses his new laws into a few verses, easily to be remembered.
• When the force which compresses the air is removed, it expands and resumes its former state.
• If this does not restrain the flow, then cool and even cold compresses may be applied to the lower part of the abdomen and to the small of the back.
• They were applying cold compresses to her broken jaw.
• This it does not do and we are of the opinion, that it, in many instances, according to how it is put on, compresses the womb out of place.
• Externally, compresses saturated with a strong decoction of the plant when applied to the chest, have been used beneficially for chronic bronchitis.
• Sitting in the drizzle beside the camp-fire, I heated water in a tin pail and applied hot compresses consisting of woolen socks.
• The trampling of the sheep compresses the soil, and makes even a light, sandy one firmer in texture.
• Constant application of compresses can allay the itching, and can often save the patient from the more ghastly ravages of disfigurement.
• His heaviest hammer weighs 40 tons, falls 12 feet, and strikes a blow which does not draw the surface like a light hammer, but compresses the whole mass to the core.
• As this dries it compresses him so terribly that he cannot move, and so, finding no help, his life ends in misery.
• This pump, then, compresses the air in the bottle, and the gauge accurately measures its pressure.
• He compresses the cork in a very strong reservoir filled with water under a pressure of from four to five atmospheres.

Similar words containing MPRESSE without suffix s and without prefix co

empresse12 impresse12 empresses13 impressed14 impresser13 impresses13 compressed17 impressers14 unimpressed16 compressedly22 decompressed20 decompresses19 empressement18 obcompressed21 recompressed19 recompresses18 uncompressed19 uncompresses18 empressements19 overimpressed21 overimpresses20 overcompressed24 overcompresses23

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