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 make thinner by adding solvent to a solution, especially by adding water.
To cause the value of individual shares or the stake of a shareholder to decrease by increasing the total number of shares.
To become attenuated, thin, or weak.
To weaken, especially by adding a foreign substance.
An animal having a lighter-coloured coat than is usual.
Of an animal: having a lighter-coloured coat than is usual.
Having a low concentration.
Weak; reduced in strength by dilution; diluted.