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Compressed

adjective

Pressed tightly together. Synonym: tight.

Reduced in volume by pressure.

Flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes). Synonym: flat.

Compress

verb

(past & past part. compressed; pres. part. compressing)

Make more compact by or as if by pressing. Synonyms: compact, pack together.

Squeeze or press together. Synonyms: compact, constrict, contract, press, squeeze. "The spasm contracted the muscle"

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"Compressed" Quotes from Famous Books

... face of the precipice in one great unbroken barrier of opaque, immaculate, impenetrable pearl. As you looked upon it the chief impression it gave you was one of immense thickness and crushing weight. It seemed so compressed and impermeable that one could not fancy how even a thunderbolt could shatter it, or the wildest blast of any hurricane dissipate its enormous depth. But as yet it had not enveloped the peaks themselves. On them the sun yet shone, and where the boys stood they ...

— St. Winifred's - The World of School • Frederic W. Farrar

... He compressed himself into the smallest possible space behind the tree and then fired in the direction of the last shot. He allowed a short interval to elapse and then fired again. The other man must have seen the flashes, but he made no attempt to answer them. ...

— The Lost Valley • J. M. Walsh

... terrific heat from the first nozzle caused the metal to glow under the torch as if in an open-hearth furnace. From the second nozzle issued a stream of oxygen under which the hot metal of the door was completely consumed. The force of the blast as the compressed oxygen and acetylene were expelled carried a fine spray of the disintegrated metal visibly before it. And yet it was not a big hole that it made—scarcely an eighth of an inch wide, but clear and sharp as if a buzz-saw were eating its way through a three-inch ...

— The Silent Bullet • Arthur B. Reeve

... flail. The grindstone. Making flour. Baking bread. How the bread was raised. What yeast does in bread. Temperature required. The "Baby" and the honey pot. The bread with large holes in it. George's trip to the cliffs. A peculiar sounding noise and spray from the cliffs. An air pocket. Compressed air. ...

— The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island • Roger Thompson Finlay

... read on, unnoticing, with compressed lips and knitted brows—those brows that looked so black on the fair skin, under the ...

— The Light of Scarthey • Egerton Castle

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