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compressed

adjectiveverbattested in dialogue

  • //kəmˈpɹɛst//

Pressed tightly together.

adjective

  1. 1

    Pressed tightly together.

    compressed air

    highly compressed

  2. 2

    Flattened, especially when along its entire length.

    The gas remains compressed inside the cylinder.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of compresssimple past and past participle of compress

    The file is stored in a compressed format.

    compressed file

Forms

comparative
more compressed
superlative
most compressed
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).