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COMPRESSES

10 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 20 pts

COMPRESSES is a valid 10-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 20 in Super Big Boggle.

COMPRESSES root COMPRESS-es

Word family

COMPRESS 11 COMPRESSING-ing 11 COMPRESSED-ed 11

Might be on the same board

Other words sharing these letters — a good chance they hide on the same Boggle board.

COMPRESSION 11 COMPRESSIVE 11 COMPRESSEDLY 11 COMPRESSIBLE 11 COMPRESSIBLY 11 COMPRESSIONS 11 COMPRESSIVELY 11 COMPRESSIBILITY 11 COMPRESSIBILITIES 11
verb
  1. transitiveTo make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.
    • The force required to compress a spring varies linearly with the displacement.
  2. intransitiveTo be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format.
    • Our new model compresses easily, ideal for storage and travel
  3. transitiveTo condense into a more economic, easier format.
    • This chart compresses the entire audit report into a few lines on a single diagram.
  4. transitiveTo abridge.
    • If you try to compress the entire book into a three-sentence summary, you will lose a lot of information.
  5. transitiveTo make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.
  6. transitiveTo make a pulse or particle bunch shorter by applying dispersion to it.
  7. obsoleteTo embrace sexually.
noun
  1. 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.
    • He held a cold compress over the sprain.
  2. A machine for compressing.