(transitive) To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.

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.

plural of compress

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of compress

Pressed tightly together. / Flattened, especially when along its entire length.

simple past tense and past participle of compress

Alternative form of compressible

plural of compressibility

That compresses

The state or quality of being compressive.