compress
/kəmˈpres/ v [T] (PRESS)Definition
› to press something into a smaller space: Snow in the crater compresses into a fastest-growing glacier. Firmly compress the dirt in the pot to hold the plant upright. › To compress also means to shorten something so that it takes less time: Four years of normal mortgage business is being compressed into two months. compression /kəmˈpreʃ·ən/ n [U] › data compression
(Definition of compress v (PRESS) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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