Synonyms:
compressed
Meaning: reduced in volume by pressure; "compressed air"
Usage examples
John Thornton compressed his lips.
Danglars felt the irony and compressed his lips.
Miss Carlyle compressed her lips as she scanned it.
We found a good deal of compressed fodder and boxes of maize, but no grain crushed as expected.
Her lips were tightly compressed and she kept whispering to herself: "Oh, dear Saviour!" "Lord, Thou knowest!"
Air-tight joints in the pipes which lead to the compressed air reservoir are placed in the bearings of this mounting.
Nor was it only at the elections that the popular feeling, so long and so severely compressed, exploded with violence.
So we got the big biplane together and loaded it with our scientifically compressed baggage: the camera, of course; the glasses; a supply of concentrated food.
To the lay mind a "storage" battery presents itself in the aspect of a device in which electric energy is STORED, just as compressed air is stored or accumulated in a tank.
To add to the wall insulation the south and east sides of the hut are piled high with compressed forage bales, whilst the north side is being prepared as a winter stable for the ponies.
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