compress vs sprawl

compress

verb
  • 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. 

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. 

sprawl

verb
  • 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. 

noun
  • 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. 

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