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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. Antonym: decompress.

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

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"Compressed" Quotes from Famous Books

... third of a cake of compressed yeast (Fleischmann's) in a little warm water (not hot). Take a quart of milk fresh from the cow, or warmed to blood heat, add to it a tablespoonful of sugar, and the dissolved yeast. Put the mixture ...

— Making Good On Private Duty • Harriet Camp Lounsbery

... contrary. His great thick lips were compressed athwart his face in a grotesque expression of joy. The instincts of his wild race were busy within him. To them a flight of locusts is not an object of dread, but a source of rejoicing—their coming as welcome as a take of shrimps to a Leigh fisherman, ...

— Popular Adventure Tales • Mayne Reid

... device consisted of a piece of phosphorus contained in a tube. A piston fitted snugly into the tube, by means of which the air could be compressed and the phosphorus ignited. Sulphur matches were ignited from the burning tinder, the latter being fired by flint and steel. In 1828 another form of match consisted of a glass tube containing sulphuric acid and surrounded by a mixture ...

— Artificial Light - Its Influence upon Civilization • M. Luckiesh

... drab or light-slate,—both colors being common,—marked and spotted with light-drab. In some specimens, drab is the prevailing color. They are kidney-shaped, irregularly compressed or flattened, nearly three-fourths of an inch long, and three-eighths of an inch deep. A quart contains about sixteen hundred seeds, and is sufficient for planting a row two hundred and fifty feet in length, or two ...

— The Field and Garden Vegetables of America • Fearing Burr

... white hair which grew on his throat up the sides of his head to his ears, and which gave him rather a peculiar appearance, as if he had his jaw bandaged up. His eyes were grey and shrewd-looking, his lips were firmly compressed—in fact, the whole appearance of his face was obstinate—the face of a man who would stick to his opinions whatever anyone else might say to the contrary. He was in a rough miner's dress, all splashed with clay, and as he came up to ...

— Madame Midas • Fergus Hume

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