Compress is valid Scrabble Word

Is compress a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is compress valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
14 points in Scrabble
17 points in WWF

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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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.

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