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Compressed

adjective

Pressed tightly together. Synonym: tight.

Reduced in volume by pressure.

Flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes). Synonym: flat.

Compress

verb

(past & past part. compressed; pres. part. compressing)

Make more compact by or as if by pressing. Synonyms: compact, pack together.

Squeeze or press together. Synonyms: compact, constrict, contract, press, squeeze. "The spasm contracted the muscle"

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... which was quoted in London. It described a student at law, of delicate complexion, who at the age of fourteen gave himself up to masturbation. He continually studied until the age of nineteen, when he fell into a state of dulness, and complained that his head felt as if compressed by a circle of fire. He said that a voice kept muttering to him that his generative organs were abnormally deformed or the seat of disease. After that, he imagined that he heard a cry of "amputation! amputation!" Driven by this hallucination, ...

— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould

... diameter than the British 21-inch. In "launching-trays" by the side of the tubes were eight torpedoes with their deadly war-heads attached. Both transverse bulkheads were almost hidden by indicators, voice-tubes, and pipes for transmitting the compressed air from the ...

— The Submarine Hunters - A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War • Percy F. Westerman

... illustration (Fig. 105) is situated near the village of Palca; it rises from an excavation four feet deep; its height is about sixteen feet, and the cornice consists of ICHU, a coarse grass which grows in abundance on the mountains, and which after being firmly compressed was cut with the help of sharp instruments. The human bones, which were mixed together in the greatest confusion, made a heap in the sepulchral chamber more ...

— Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples • The Marquis de Nadaillac

... The rebreathers, unlike Scubas, which were filled with compressed air, used oxygen which was recycled through a canister of chemicals that removed water vapor and carbon dioxide. They were completely self-contained; no ...

— The Flying Stingaree • Harold Leland Goodwin

... Autumn," in which he combines the simplicity of the old classics with the romance and magic of medieval writers,—there are no works in English of a similar kind that make stronger appeal to our ideal of poetry and of verbal melody. Into the three stanzas of "Autumn," for example, Keats has compressed the vague feelings of beauty, of melancholy, of immortal aspiration, which come to sensitive souls in the "season of mists and mellow fruitfulness." It may be compared, or rather contrasted, with another poem on the same subject which voices the despair in the heart of the French poet ...

— Outlines of English and American Literature • William J. Long

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