(transitive) To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.

A multiply folded piece of cloth, a pouch of ice etc., used to apply to a patient's skin, cover the dressing of wounds, and placed with the aid of a bandage to apply pressure on an injury.

Pressed tightly together. / Flattened, especially when along its entire length.

simple past tense and past participle of compress

An increase in density; the act of compressing, or the state of being compressed; compaction.

able to be compressed

present participle of compress

The degree to which something is compressible. / (thermodynamics) The product of pressure and molar volume divided by the product of the gas constant and the absolute temperature.

plural of compression

That compresses