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Synonyms for compress
kəmˈprɛs; ˈkɒm prɛscom·press
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Princeton's WordNet
compressverb
a cloth pad or dressing (with or without medication) applied firmly to some part of the body (to relieve discomfort or reduce fever)
Antonyms:
uncompress, decompresscompress, compact, pack togetherverb
make more compact by or as if by pressing
"compress the data"
Synonyms:
bundle, press, squeeze, pack, compact, contract, pack together, wad, constrictAntonyms:
uncompress, decompresscompress, constrict, squeeze, compact, contract, pressverb
squeeze or press together
"she compressed her lips"; "the spasm contracted the muscle"
Synonyms:
fight, adjure, weigh, pressure, crush, narrow, thrust, get, rack, cut, pack together, foreshorten, undertake, hale, press, twitch, pack, gouge, tweet, embrace, bundle, agitate, force, pinch, shove, weight-lift, sign up, sign on, twinge, urge, hug, shrink, concentrate, campaign, sign, abridge, reduce, take, condense, contract, iron, crusade, extort, stuff, urge on, squeeze, beseech, squash, compact, constringe, exhort, wring, mash, coerce, wad, bid, push, bosom, wedge, entreat, shorten, squelch, abbreviate, conjure, constrict, press out, weightlift, iron outAntonyms:
uncompress, decompress
Editors Contribution
choke (verb)
obstruct one’s throat
she choked on a tiny fish bone
Submitted by erhnice on July 28, 2019
Dictionary of English Synonymes
compressverb
Synonyms:
condense, press, squeeze, crowd, press together
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "compress":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
---|---|---|
#77 | get | |
#246 | take | |
#280 | sign | |
#422 | press | |
#992 | stuff | |
#1022 | force | |
#1137 | zip | |
#1138 | bid | |
#1204 | contract | |
#1324 | cut | |
#1570 | pack | |
#1608 | pressure | |
#2036 | reduce | |
#2171 | campaign | |
#2441 | iron | |
#2575 | fight | |
#3048 | compact | |
#3587 | push | |
#3889 | narrow | |
#4680 | rack | |
#5598 | crowd | |
#5864 | compression | |
#6694 | compressed | |
#7720 | bundle | |
#9196 | concentrate | |
#9347 | undertake | |
#9811 | urge | |
#10795 | embrace | |
#11614 | squash | |
#12382 | weigh | |
#12398 | crush | |
#12572 | thrust | |
#13161 | shrink | |
#13411 | wedge | |
#13626 | hale | |
#13787 | squeeze | |
#13972 | hug | |
#16650 | summarize | |
#17127 | pinch | |
#18225 | crusade | |
#19529 | compress | |
#20204 | mash | |
#26128 | shorten | |
#28948 | shove | |
#32051 | bosom | |
#35877 | twitch | |
#36659 | wad | |
#40572 | compressing | |
#43704 | conjure | |
#48826 | coerce | |
#53000 | beseech | |
#60356 | gouge | |
#60459 | condense | |
#62045 | squelch | |
#69333 | wring | |
#73889 | tweet | |
#82163 | abbreviate | |
#83495 | entreat | |
#86407 | agitate | |
#87318 | exhort | |
#91682 | extort | |
#101576 | abridge | |
#104149 | twinge | |
#108267 | constrict | |
#142401 | epitomize | |
#265443 | adjure |
How to use compress in a sentence?
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
They're going to need to buy gas from somebody besides the Russians, which means we have to increase production, as do others, we need to compress the timeline by which we can approve pipelines, LNG( liquefied natural gas) export facilities, etc, so that we can actually get the gas to them as soon as possible.
China's drug control agencies, now and in the years to come, will place greater emphasis on drug control cooperation between China and the United States, but I believe that to resolve this the more important issue is for the United States to strive to reduce and compress the great demand and drug consumption markets of opioids.
This will allow aerospace companies to compress their development cycles because we are making these prototype engines three or four times faster than normal.
But I believe that to resolve this the more important issue is for the United States to strive to reduce and compress the great demand and drug consumption markets of opioids.
Translations for compress
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- сгъстявам, сгъстявам се, сбивам, компрес, сбивам се, компримирамBulgarian
- kompresCzech
- Kompresse, komprimierenGerman
- comprimirse, comprimirSpanish
- pakata, kompressoida, kompressoituaFinnish
- comprimer, compresse, compresserFrench
- dlúthaighIrish
- borogatásHungarian
- ճզմել, սեղմելArmenian
- þjappaIcelandic
- comprimereItalian
- 要約, 湿布, 圧縮Japanese
- whakawhāitiMāori
- verdichten, samendrukken, krimpen, samenvatten, kompres, comprimerenDutch
- уплотнить, сдавить, компресс, сжаться, сжать, сдавливать, уплотнять, сжимать, сжиматьсяRussian
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