[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

compress \compress"\, v. t. imp.  p. p. compressed; p. pr 
   vb. n. compressing. l. compressus, p. p. of comprimere to
   compress: com- + premere to press. see press.
   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.
      1913 webster

            events of centuries . . . compressed within the
            compass of a single life.             --d. webster.
      1913 webster

            the same strength of expression, though more
            compressed, runs through his historical harangues.
                                                  --melmoth.
      1913 webster

   2. to embrace sexually. obs. --pope.
      1913 webster

   3. computers to reduce the space required for storage of
      binary data by an algorithm which converts the data to a
      smaller number of bits while preserving the information
      content. the compressed data is usually decompressed to
      recover the initial data format before subsequent use.
      pjc

   syn: to crowd; squeeze; condense; reduce; abridge.
        1913 webster
see also:
compressed compressing 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

compressed \compressed"\, a.
   1. pressed together; compacted; reduced in volume by
      pressure.
      1913 webster

   2. bot. flattened lengthwise.
      1913 webster

   compressed-air engine, an engine operated by the elastic
      force of compressed air.
      1913 webster
see also:
compressed-air engine 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

compressed
     adj 1: pressed tightly together; "with lips compressed" syn: tight
     2: reduced in volume by pressure; "compressed air"
     3: flattened laterally along the whole length e.g., certain
        leafstalks or flatfishes syn: flat
see also:
tight flat 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

104 moby thesaurus words for "compressed":
   spartan, abbreviated, abridged, abstracted, aposiopestic, bobbed,
   brief, brusque, capsule, capsulized, clamped, clipped, close,
   close-knit, close-textured, close-woven, compact, compacted,
   compendious, concentrated, concise, concrete, condensed, congested,
   consolidated, constricted, contracted, crammed, crammed full,
   cramped, crisp, cropped, crowded, curt, curtailed, cut, cut short,
   dense, digested, docked, elided, elliptic, epigrammatic, firm,
   gluey, gnomic, hard, heavy, impenetrable, impermeable, jam-packed,
   jammed, knitted, laconic, massive, mowed, mown, nipped, nonporous,
   packed, pinched, pinched-in, pithy, pointed, pollard, polled,
   pruned, puckered, pursed, reaped, reserved, sententious, serried,
   shaved, sheared, short, short and sweet, short-cut, shortened,
   snub, snubbed, solid, solidified, squeezed, strangled,
   strangulated, substantial, succinct, summary, synopsized, taciturn,
   terse, thick, thick-growing, thickset, tight, to the point,
   trimmed, truncated, viscid, viscose, viscous, wasp-waisted,
   wrinkled

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