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 fill or compact by pounding or driving.
To thrust during sexual intercourse.
To strike (something) hard, especially with an implement.
To collide with (an object), usually with the intention of damaging it or disabling its function.
To seat a cartridge, projectile, or propellant charge in the breech of a firearm by pushing or striking.
A piston powered by hydraulic pressure.
A weight which strikes a blow, in a ramming device such as a pile driver, steam hammer, or stamp mill.
A reinforced section of the bow of a warship, intended to be used for ramming other ships.
An act of ramming.
A battering ram; a heavy object used for breaking through doors.
A male sheep, typically uncastrated.
A warship intended to sink other ships by ramming them.
Rancid; offensive in smell or taste.