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 make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.
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 spread out in a disorderly fashion; to straggle.
To scoot the legs backwards, so as to land on the upper back of an opponent attempting a takedown.
To sit with the limbs spread out.
A defensive technique that is done in response to certain takedown attempts, where one scoots the legs backwards so as to land on the upper back of the opponent.
An ungainly sprawling posture.
A straggling, haphazard growth, especially of housing on the edge of a city.