Crossword-Solution: COMPRESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Compress | v. t. | 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. |
| Compress | v. t. | To embrace sexually. |
| Compress | n. | 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. |
We have 74 clues for the answer “COMPRESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| FORCE into smaller volume | 1 answer |
| Medical pad | 1 answer |
| PAD of lint | 1 answer |
| Pack together tightly | 1 answer |
| Reduce by squeezing | 1 answer |
| WET cloth applied to relieve inflammation | 1 answer |
| constringe | 1 answer |
| make more compact by or as if by pressing | 1 answer |
| pledget | 2 answers |
| First-aid device | 3 answers |
| Squeeze together | 5 answers |
| make smaller | 11 answers |
| FLOW (ant.) | 11 answers |
| Telescope | 18 answers |
| Abbreviate | 26 answers |
| overcrowd | 26 answers |
| strangulate | 26 answers |
| Squeeze | 26 answers |
| Wad | 27 answers |
| garrotte | 29 answers |
| Bandage | 29 answers |
| Summarize | 30 answers |
| wring | 31 answers |
| Condense | 31 answers |
| Throttle | 32 answers |
| congest | 33 answers |
| Stabilize | 35 answers |
| Consolidate | 35 answers |
| Shorten | 35 answers |
| MAKE lean | 38 answers |
| stabilise | 39 answers |
| strangle | 39 answers |
| Curtail | 40 answers |
| Abridge | 41 answers |
| MAKE unshapely | 42 answers |
| MAKE flatter | 42 answers |
| Concentrate | 42 answers |
| ASPHYXIATE | 43 answers |
| MAKE small | 43 answers |
| Thicken | 43 answers |
| constrict | 43 answers |
| digest | 43 answers |
| summarise | 44 answers |
| Compose | 44 answers |
| Pad | 44 answers |
| shut off | 44 answers |
| Packaging | 47 answers |
| Pinch | 47 answers |
| smother | 48 answers |
| Muffle | 48 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZECAME
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with COMPRESS (5)
One cannot have full-screen, full-color images with lossless compression; one must compress them or use a lower resolution.
For example, a system for access to PCBoard | | bulletin boards may consist of Off-Line Xpress software, PKZIP | | and PKUNZIP (popular shareware programs to compress/decompress | | mail packets), the QMODEM communications program, and a script | | to navigate to/from the QWK packet send and receive area on the | | BBS.
Elton’s voice from the sitting-room had not checked her, and made it expedient to compress all her friendly and all her congratulatory sensations into a very, very earnest shake of the hand.
Something resembling a bandage; that which is bound over or round something to cover, strengthen, or compress it; a ligature.
Without laboratories, without coaching, sitting in my bedroom, I proceeded to compress that two years' work into three months and to keep reviewed on the previous year's work.
Quotes with COMPRESS (3)
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!
Anyone and everyone taking a writing class knows that the secret of good writing is to cut it back, pare it down, winnow, chop, hack, prune, and trim, remove every superfluous word, compress, compress, compress... Actually, when you think about it, not many novels in the Spare tradition are terribly cheerful. Jokes you can usually pluck out whole, by the roots, so if you're doing some heavy-duty prose-weeding, they're the first to go. And there's some stuff about the whole wi…
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Surely these should never be confused in the mind of any man who has the slightest inkling of what culture is. For most of us it is essential that we should make a living... In the complications of modern life and with our increased accumulation of knowledge, it doubtless helps greatly to compress some years of experience into far fewer years by studying for a particular tr…
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Appears in: NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1979–2011).