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Synonyms of compress in English:

compress


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verb

1‘the skirt can be folded and compressed into a relatively small bag’

SYNONYMS
flatten
squeeze, press, squash, crush, cram, jam, stuff, wedge
tamp, pack, wad, compact
constrict
informal scrunch, squidge
rare coarct, coarctate

2‘Polly compressed her lips and sat down’

SYNONYMS
purse, press together, squeeze together, pinch, crimp
pucker

3‘the material has been compressed into 17 pages’

SYNONYMS
abridge, shorten, cut, condense, abbreviate, contract, telescope
summarize, synopsize, precis, abstract, digest
truncate
rare epitomize
ANTONYMS

expand, pad out