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compress

English

  1. 🔊 a cloth pad or dressing (with or without medication) applied firmly to some part of the body (to relieve discomfort or reduce fever)
  2. 🔊 squeeze or press together
    “she compressed her lips”
  3. 🔊 make more compact by or as if by pressing
    “compress the data”

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