1. compressed - Adjective
2. compressed - Verb
4. compressed - Adjective Satellite
of Compress
Pressed together; compacted; reduced in volume by pressure.
Flattened lengthwise.
Source: Webster's dictionaryCreeping with awe to the verge, I peered down into a large rent which had been made from bank to bank of the broad Zambezi, and saw that a stream of a thousand yards broad leaped down a hundred feet [30 m] and then became suddenly compressed into a space of fifteen to twenty yards. David Livingstone
They say it only takes an instant to have a dream; a dream can be compressed into hardtack. Gao Xingjian
And perhaps in this is the whole difference; perhaps all the wisdom, and all truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed into that inappreciable moment of time in which we step over the threshold of the invisible. Joseph Conrad
This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed. Dylan Thomas
[Elizabeth Moon's] antagonists are always evil moustache-twirlers. She could write a book about a golf open and the main rival to the hero would turn out to have clubs made from compressed kittens. James Nicoll
Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before. Mary Baker Eddy