A machine for compressing.
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.
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 device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
The act of swelling; increase in size.
The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle.
A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
A person of high social standing; an important person.
Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
A bulge or protuberance.
A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
Very well.
To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
To protuberate; to bulge out.
To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness.
To grow gradually in force or loudness.
To be raised to arrogance.
To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
To cause to become bigger.