Synonyms for compress
kəmˈprɛs; ˈkɒm prɛscom·press

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1. compress

   Synonyms:
   condense, compact, crowd, squeeze, contract, abridge, epitomize, summarize

   Antonyms:
   expand, dilate, diffuse, colliquate, compression

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1. 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, decompress

2. compress, 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, constrict

   Antonyms:
   uncompress, decompress

3. compress, 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 out

   Antonyms:
   uncompress, decompress

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1. choke (verb)

   obstruct one’s throat

   she choked on a tiny fish bone

   Submitted by erhnice on July 28, 2019  

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1. compressverb

   Synonyms:
   condense, press, squeeze, crowd, press together

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1. List of paraphrases for "compress":

   compressing, compression, squeeze, zip, compressed

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How to use compress in a sentence?

1. Liu Yuejin:

   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.

2. Blake Hall:

   We're verifying more than 1 % of the American adult population each quarter, and that's starting to compress more to like 45 or 50 days.

3. Alex Azar:

   We've got to use the full power of the U.S. government and the private sector here to compress all of those (drug trial) timelines, reduce inefficiency in development and use the power of the U.S. government to produce at risk, scale hundreds of millions of doses of vaccines even while we're running the clinical trials to prove their safe and effective.

4. Bill Cassidy:

   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.

5. Simon Marriott:

   This will allow aerospace companies to compress their development cycles because we are making these prototype engines three or four times faster than normal.