Antonyms for compress
kəmˈprɛs; ˈkɒm prɛscom·press

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. compress

   Antonyms:
   expand, dilate, diffuse, colliquate, compression

   Synonyms:
   condense, compact, crowd, squeeze, contract, abridge, epitomize, summarize

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.0 / 2 votes

1. compressverb

   a cloth pad or dressing (with or without medication) applied firmly to some part of the body (to relieve discomfort or reduce fever)

   Antonyms:
   uncompress, decompress

2. compress, compact, pack togetherverb

   make more compact by or as if by pressing

   "compress the data"

   Antonyms:
   uncompress, decompress

   Synonyms:
   bundle, press, squeeze, pack, compact, contract, pack together, wad, constrict

3. compress, constrict, squeeze, compact, contract, pressverb

   squeeze or press together

   "she compressed her lips"; "the spasm contracted the muscle"

   Antonyms:
   uncompress, decompress

   Synonyms:
   fight, adjure, weigh, pressure, crush, narrow, thrust, get, rack, cut, pack together, foreshorten, undertake, hale, press, twitch, pack, gouge, tweet, embrace, bundle, agitate, force, pinch, shove, weight-lift, sign up, sign on, twinge, urge, hug, shrink, concentrate, campaign, sign, abridge, reduce, take, condense, contract, iron, crusade, extort, stuff, urge on, squeeze, beseech, squash, compact, constringe, exhort, wring, mash, coerce, wad, bid, push, bosom, wedge, entreat, shorten, squelch, abbreviate, conjure, constrict, press out, weightlift, iron out

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. burst, expand

   to press together, to force into less space

   "the hull compressed from the pressure" "the child compacted the foil into a ball with it fist and threw it."

   Submitted by minithygesen on June 12, 2021  

How to use compress in a sentence?

1. Bill Cassidy:

   They're going to need to buy gas from somebody besides the Russians, which means we have to increase production, as do others, we need to compress the timeline by which we can approve pipelines, LNG( liquefied natural gas) export facilities, etc, so that we can actually get the gas to them as soon as possible.

2. Jamie Schwartz:

   The technologies I see as having the biggest impact are those that compress the time needed to build trust.

3. Simon Marriott:

   This will allow aerospace companies to compress their development cycles because we are making these prototype engines three or four times faster than normal.

4. The Family Leader observer:

   They talked about binders – things that compress a girl’s chest to make it appear you don’t have what is there, and they talked about how students can make fake testicles by filling pantyhose with rice and sewing them into their panties.

5. Liu Yuejin:

   China's drug control agencies, now and in the years to come, will place greater emphasis on drug control cooperation between China and the United States, but I believe that to resolve this the more important issue is for the United States to strive to reduce and compress the great demand and drug consumption markets of opioids.

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