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. Blake Hall:

   We're verifying more than 1 % of the American adult population each quarter, and that's starting to compress more to like 45 or 50 days.

2. 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.

3. Jamie Schwartz:

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

4. Abraham Lincoln:

   He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

5. 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.

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