Need another word that means the same as “compress”? Find 26 synonyms and 30 related words for “compress” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Compress” are: compact, pack together, constrict, contract, press, squeeze, flatten, purse, press together, squeeze together, pinch, crimp, abridge, shorten, cut, condense, abbreviate, telescope, bandage, covering, gauze, lint, ligature, swathe, poultice, salve
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “compress” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| bandage | A strip of woven material used to bind up a wound or to protect an injured part of the body. Her leg was swathed in bandages. |
| covering | The act of protecting something by covering it. A vinyl floor covering. |
| gauze | (medicine) bleached cotton cloth of plain weave used for bandages and dressings. A hat swathed in green gauze. |
| ligature | Thread used by surgeons to bind a vessel (as to constrict the flow of blood. There was no sign of the ligature which strangled her. |
| lint | The fibrous material of a cotton boll. Some fabrics leave tiny specks of lint on the glass. |
| poultice | A medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal or clay that is spread on a cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflamed areas or improve circulation etc. |
| salve | Semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation. The wound should be washed with water and then a salve applied. |
| swathe | A strip left clear by the passage of a mowing machine or scythe. Vast swathes of countryside. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “compress” as a verb can have the following definitions:
| abbreviate | Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements. I decided to abbreviate my stay in Cambridge. |
| abridge | Lessen, diminish, or curtail. The introduction is abridged from the author s afterword to the novel. |
| compact | Have the property of being packable or of compacting easily. The ideas are compacted into two sentences. |
| condense | Make more concise. He condensed the three plays into a three hour drama. |
| constrict | Inhibit or restrict. He felt his throat constrict. |
| contract | Enter into a contractual arrangement. The paper had contracted to publish extracts from the diaries. |
| crimp | Have a limiting or adverse effect on (something. Pliers will crimp wires together. |
| cut | Form or shape by cutting or incising. Cut a dress. |
| flatten | Make flat or flatter. Flatten your stomach with these exercises. |
| pack together | Fill to capacity. |
| pinch | Irritate as if by a nip pinch or tear. To explore in more detail just pinch the screen. |
| press | Place between two surfaces and apply weight or pressure. Press your shirts. |
| press together | Squeeze or press together. |
| purse | (with reference to the lips) pucker or contract, typically to express disapproval or irritation. Marianne took a glance at her reflection and pursed her lips disgustedly. |
| shorten | Make or become shorter. Shorten the rope by a few inches. |
| squeeze | Squeeze tightly between the fingers. The economy is being squeezed by foreign debt repayments. |
| squeeze together | Squeeze (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness. |
| telescope | Make smaller or shorter. My hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack. |
| chill | Chilly. He was confined to bed with a severe chill. |
| compact | A mass of powdered metal compacted together in preparation for sintering. Compact clusters of flowers. |
| compactly | With concise and precise brevity; to the point. He wrote compactly but clearly. |
| compendious | Briefly giving the gist of something. A compendious study. |
| compressed | Flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes. Compressed air. |
| compression | Encoding information while reducing the bandwidth or bits required. |
| concise | Giving a lot of information clearly and in a few words; brief but comprehensive. A concise account of the country s history. |
| condense | Develop due to condensation. All our planets condensed out of the same material. |
| connote | (of a fact) imply as a consequence or condition. The term modern science usually connotes a complete openness to empirical testing. |
| constrict | Inhibit or restrict. Chemicals that constrict the blood vessels. |
| contraction | The process of becoming smaller. The manufacturing sector suffered a severe contraction. |
| crowded | Overfilled or compacted or concentrated. The crowded streets of Southwark. |
| dense | Permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter. Dense as lead. |
| disassemble | Take apart into its constituent pieces. It is permissible for a lawful user to disassemble a computer program to determine its interfaces. |
| economizer | A person who reduces expenditure. |
| flatten | Make flat or flatter. Her hair had been flattened by the storm. |
| freeze | Cause to freeze. Workers faced a pay freeze. |
| minimize | Reduce (something, especially something undesirable) to the smallest possible amount or degree. They may minimize or even overlook the importance of such beliefs. |
| packed | Extremely crowed or filled to capacity. A packed theater. |
| pressed | (of juice or oil) extracted by crushing or squeezing fruit, vegetables, etc. Freshly pressed orange juice. |
| pressure | The pressure exerted by the atmosphere. The sensitivity of his skin to pressure and temperature was normal. |
| refrigerant | Any substance used to provide cooling (as in a refrigerator. A refrigerant substance such as ice or solid carbon dioxide. |
| small | Into small pieces. Small children. |
| solidify | Make solid or more solid cause to solidify. Social and political pressures helped to solidify national identities. |
| squash | Edible fruit of a squash plant eaten as a vegetable. The proposal was immediately squashed by the Heritage Department. |
| squeeze | Squeeze like a wedge into a tight space. Freshly squeezed orange juice. |
| teeming | Abundantly filled with especially living things. The teeming boulevard. |
| thick | Not thin of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions. She s thick and she s rocking it. |
| thorough | Performed comprehensively and completely. The British authorities are very thorough. |
| tight | Pulled or drawn tight. The folk were far too tight to let anyone know. |
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