Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to compress
Participle: compressed
Gerund: compressing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | compress |
| you | compress |
| he;she;it | compresses |
| we | compress |
| you | compress |
| they | compress |
Perfect
| I | have compressed |
| you | have compressed |
| he;she;it | has compressed |
| we | have compressed |
| you | have compressed |
| they | have compressed |
Past
| I | compressed |
| you | compressed |
| he;she;it | compressed |
| we | compressed |
| you | compressed |
| they | compressed |
Pluperfect
| I | had compressed |
| you | had compressed |
| he;she;it | had compressed |
| we | had compressed |
| you | had compressed |
| they | had compressed |
Future
| I | will compress |
| you | will compress |
| he;she;it | will compress |
| we | will compress |
| you | will compress |
| they | will compress |
Future Perfect
| I | will have compressed |
| you | will have compressed |
| he;she;it | will have compressed |
| we | will have compressed |
| you | will have compressed |
| they | will have compressed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | compress |
| you | compress |
| he;she;it | compress |
| we | compress |
| you | compress |
| they | compress |
Perfect
| I | have compressed |
| you | have compressed |
| he;she;it | have compressed |
| we | have compressed |
| you | have compressed |
| they | have compressed |
Imperfect
| I | compressed |
| you | compressed |
| he;she;it | compressed |
| we | compressed |
| you | compressed |
| they | compressed |
Pluperfect
| I | had compressed |
| you | had compressed |
| he;she;it | had compressed |
| we | had compressed |
| you | had compressed |
| they | had compressed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would compress |
| you | would compress |
| he;she;it | would compress |
| we | would compress |
| you | would compress |
| they | would compress |
Perfect
| I | would have compressed |
| you | would have compressed |
| he;she;it | would have compressed |
| we | would have compressed |
| you | would have compressed |
| they | would have compressed |
Imperative
| you | compress |
| we | Let's compress |
| you | compress |
Verbs conjugated like 'compress'
abash,
abolish,
abroach,
accomplish,
accroach,
address,
admix,
admonish,
ado,
adpress,
affamish,
affix,
alloo,
amass,
ambush,
anguish,
annex,
appeach,
appears,
approach, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'compress'
coexpress,
compass,
comprise,
congress,
decompress,
empress,
hotpress,
impress,
oppress,
recompress,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to compress
- squash
- condense, abridge
- shorten
- make more dense
- compact
- to make shorter
- abbreviate, abridge, chop off, condense, curt, curtail, lop off, make shorter, pare, prune, reduce in length, shorten, trim, truncate
- compress
- smush
- to press or squeeze together; to make more dense
- astringe, compact, compactify, condense, densitize, mash, pack, press, scrunch, smush, squash, squeeze, squish, squoosh, thring, thrutch
- contract
- squeeze, constrict, pack, crush, wedge, pressurize, crowd, pressure
- abbreviate
- condense, reduce, outline, shorten, abridge, summarize, syncopate, epitomize
Antonyms
- to press or squeeze together; to make more dense
- decompact, decompactify, decompress, densen, expand, uncompress
- contract
- expand, increase, enlarge, extend
- abbreviate
- expand, extend, enlarge, increase
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1380, "to press (something) together," from O.Fr.
compresser, from L.
compressare "to press together," frequentative of
comprimere "to squeeze," from
com- "together" +
premere "to press" (see press (v.1)). The noun, in the surgical sense, is from 1599.
2. From Middle English compressen, from Old French compresser, from Late Latin compressare (“to press hard/together”), from Latin compressus, the past participle of comprimō (“to compress”), itself from com- (“together”) + premō (“press”).
Verbs referencing "compress"
Polish
kompresować.
Sample Sentences
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The force required to compress a spring varies linearly with the displacement.
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events of centuries […] compressed within the compass of a single life [1825 June 17, Daniel Webster, Speech on the laying of the Corner Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument:]
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The same strength of expression, though more compressed, runs through his historical harangues. [1810, William Melmoth, transl., Letters of Pliny:]
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Our new model compresses easily, ideal for storage and travel
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This chart compresses the entire audit report into a few lines on a single diagram.
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If you try to compress the entire book into a three-sentence summary, you will lose a lot of information.
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The command-line tool gzip allows you to compress files in a few different ways. First, gzip can compress results from standard input. [2015, Vince Buffalo, Bioinformatics Data Skills […] , O'Reilly, →ISBN:]
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Diffraction gratings are by far the most common elements used to stretch and compress pulses because of their substantial angular dispersion, […] [2019, B. Webb et al., “Simulation of grating compressor misalignment tolerances and mitigation strategies for chirped-pulse–amplification systems of varying bandwidths and beam sizes”, in Applied Optics, volume 58, number 2, pages 234-243:]
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This nymph compreſs'd by him vvho rules the day, / VVhom Delphi and the Delian iſle obey, / Andræmon lov'd; and, bleſs'd in all thoſe charms / That pleas'd a God, ſucceeded to her arms. [1717, Alexander Pope, “The Fable of Dryope. From the Ninth Book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses.”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], →OCLC, page 295:]