blow up vs compress

blow up

verb
  • To enlarge or zoom in. 

  • To blow something upward. 

  • To succumb to oxygen debt and lose the ability to maintain pace in a race. 

  • To blow the whistle. 

  • To suddenly get very angry. 

  • To fail disastrously. 

  • To explode or be destroyed by explosion. 

  • To become popular very quickly. 

  • To become much more fat or rotund in a short space of time. 

  • To bombard with a large number of calls, texts, etc., often exasperating the recipient. 

  • Receiving a large number of calls or notifications to the point of making the device effectively unusable. 

  • To cause a malodorous smell by flatulation or defecation. 

  • To cause (something or someone) to explode, or to destroy (something) or maim or kill (someone) by means of an explosion. 

  • To inflate or fill with air, either by literally blowing or using an air pump. 

compress

verb
  • To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume. 

  • To abridge. 

  • To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits. 

  • To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format. 

  • To condense into a more economic, easier format. 

noun
  • 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. 

  • A machine for compressing. 

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