Apply a compress to the affected part every two hours.
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Compress
//kəmˈpɹɛs//
Synonyms for "compress" (182 found)
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Closest matches (37)
Verb(12 words)
Strong matches (54)
Related words (91)
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98 translations across 34 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- σπληνίον noun (cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds)
Armenian
2 entries- ճզմել verb (to press together into a smaller space)
- սեղմել verb (to press together into a smaller space)
Bulgarian
4 entries- компре́с noun (cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds)
- компримирам verb (to encode digital information into less bits)
- сбивам verb (to press together into a smaller space)
- сбивам verb (to condense)
Burmese
1 entries- သိပ် verb (to press together into a smaller space)
Catalan
2 entries- compresa noun (cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds)
- comprimir verb (to press together into a smaller space)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 冷敷 noun (cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds)
- 濕布 /湿布 noun (cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds)
- 熱敷 /热敷 noun (cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds)
- 壓縮 /压缩 verb (to press together into a smaller space)
Czech
2 entries- kompres noun (cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds)
- komprimovat verb (to encode digital information into less bits)
Danish
1 entries- kompres noun (cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds)
Dutch
4 entries- kompres noun (cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds)
- comprimeren verb (to press together into a smaller space)
- comprimeren verb (to be pressed together)
- comprimeren verb (to condense)
Esperanto
4 entries- densigi verb (to encode digital information into less bits)
- kunpremi verb (to press together into a smaller space)
- kunpremi verb (to encode digital information into less bits)
- kunpremiĝi verb (to be pressed together)
Estonian
3 entries- kompress noun (cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds)
- mähis noun (cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds)
- side noun (cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds)
Finnish
4 entries- kompressoida verb (to press together into a smaller space)
- kompressoitua verb (to be pressed together)
- pakata verb (to encode digital information into less bits)
- puristaa verb (to press together into a smaller space)
French
3 entries- compresse noun (cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds)
- compresser verb (to encode digital information into less bits)
- comprimer verb (to press together into a smaller space)
German
4 entries- Kompresse noun (cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds)
- komprimieren verb (to press together into a smaller space)
- komprimieren verb (to condense)
- komprimieren verb (to encode digital information into less bits)
Greek
1 entries- κομπρέσα noun (cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds)
Hungarian
1 entries- borogatás noun (cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds)
Icelandic
1 entries- þjappa verb (to encode digital information into less bits)
Indonesian
1 entries- kompres noun (cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds)
Irish
2 entries- dlúthaigh verb (to press together into a smaller space)
- dlúthaigh verb (to be pressed together)
Italian
2 entries- compressa noun (cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds)
- comprimere verb (to press together into a smaller space)
Japanese
4 entries- 湿布 noun (cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds)
- 圧縮する verb (to press together into a smaller space)
- 圧縮する verb (to encode digital information into less bits)
- 要約する verb (to condense)
Latin
3 entries- fōmentum noun (cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds)
- comprimō verb (to press together into a smaller space)
- stringō verb (to press together into a smaller space)
Māori
3 entries- kurutē verb (to press together into a smaller space)
- whakarāpopoto verb (to condense)
- whakawhāiti verb (to press together into a smaller space)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- kompress noun (cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- kompress noun (cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds)
Occitan
1 entries- compressa noun (cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds)
Polish
1 entries- okład noun (cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds)
Portuguese
3 entries- compressa noun (cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds)
- comprimir verb (to press together into a smaller space)
- comprimir verb (to encode digital information into less bits)
Russian
4 entries- компре́сс noun (cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds)
- сда́вливать verb (to press together into a smaller space)
- сдави́ть verb (to press together into a smaller space)
- сжа́ться verb (to be pressed together)
Scots
1 entries- pran verb (to press together into a smaller space)
Spanish
4 entries- compresa noun (cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds)
- comprimir verb (to press together into a smaller space)
- comprimir verb (to encode digital information into less bits)
- comprimirse verb (to be pressed together)
Swedish
2 entries- komprimera verb (to press together into a smaller space)
- packa verb (to press together into a smaller space)
Tocharian B
1 entries- tsatsāpar noun (cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds)
Welsh
2 entries- cywasgu verb (to press together into a smaller space)
- gwasgu verb (to press together into a smaller space)
Sample sentences
20 total sentences available.
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
Source: tatoeba (1063434)
A baler is used to compress hay into bales.
Source: tatoeba (2833335)
I stomped on the pile of leaves to compress it.
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