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.
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.
To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
To press together or collect in numbers
To press forward; to advance by pushing.
To push, to press, to shove.
To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
To fill by pressing or thronging together
To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
A fiddle.
A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.