Definitions from Wiktionary (compress)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To condense into a more economic, easier format.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To abridge.
▸ verb:  (technology, transitive) To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To embrace sexually.
▸ noun:  (medicine) A multiply folded piece of cloth, a pouch of ice, etc., used to apply to a patient's skin, cover the dressing of wounds, and placed with the aid of a bandage to apply pressure on an injury.
▸ noun:  A machine for compressing.

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