Word Meanings - COMPRESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. 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. Events of centuries . . . compressed within the compass of a single life. D. Webster.

Additional info about word: COMPRESS

1. 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. Events of centuries . . . compressed within the compass of a single life. D. Webster. The same strength of expression, though more compressed, runs through his historical harangues. Melmoth. 2. To embrace sexually. Pope. Syn. -- To crowd; squeeze; condense; reduce; abridge.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COMPRESS)

• Abbreviate
• Shorten
• reduce
• abridge
• contract
• curtail
• epitomize
• condense
• prune
• compress
• Abridge
• diminish
• shorten
• lessen
• restrict
• tract
• Attenuate
• Educe
• elongate
• fine-drawn
• narrow
• Bridle
• Curb
• restrain
• govern
• control
• master
• moderate
• Contract Abridge
• abbreviate
• decrease
• retrench
• form
• agree

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of COMPRESS)

• Expand
• amplify
• dilate
• elongate
• reverse
• cancel
• abandon
• Neglect
• license
• berate
• free
• mismanage
• misconduct
• Increase
• grow
• expand
• augment
• extend
• enlarge

Related words: (words related to COMPRESS)

• REVERSED
  Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side,
• DIMINISH
  To make smaller by a half step; to make less than minor; as, a diminished seventh. 4. To take away; to subtract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower.
• ATTENUATE; ATTENUATED
  1. Made thin or slender. 2. Made thin or less viscid; rarefied. Bacon.
• EPITOMIZER
  An epitomist. Burton.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• TRACTORATION
  See PERKINISM
• CONTROLLABLENESS
  Capability of being controlled.
• MASTERSHIP
  1. The state or office of a master. 2. Mastery; dominion; superior skill; superiority. Where noble youths for mastership should strive. Driden. 3. Chief work; masterpiece. Dryden. 4. An ironical title of respect. How now, seignior Launce ! what
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• PRUNER
  Any one of several species of beetles whose larvæ gnaw the branches of trees so as to cause them to fall, especially the American oak pruner , whose larva eats the pith of oak branches, and when mature gnaws a circular furrow on the inside nearly
• RESTRICT
  Restricted.
• CONTRACTIBLE
  Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot.
• MASTEROUS
  Masterly. Milton.
• TRACTITE
  A Tractarian.
• CANCELLATE
  Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plant; latticelike.
• DIMINISHER
  One who, or that which, diminishes anything. Clerke .
• REDUCE
  To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from
• LESSENER
  One who, or that which, lessens. His wife . . . is the lessener of his pain, and the augmenter of his pleasure. J. Rogers .
• CREMASTERIC
  Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.
• INTRACTABILITY
  The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• BAGGAGE MASTER
  One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel.
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• MISGOVERNED
  Ill governed, as a people; ill directed. "Rude, misgoverned hands." Shak.
• REPRUNE
  To prune again or anew. Yet soon reprunes her wing to soar anew. Young.
• SEDUCEMENT
  1. The act of seducing. 2. The means employed to seduce, as flattery, promises, deception, etc.; arts of enticing or corrupting. Pope.
• REDIMINISH
  To diminish again.
• TOASTMASTER
  A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts.
• SUBCONTRACTOR
  One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
• RETRACTOR
  One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.