1. Reduced in volume by pressure
   "compressed air"
    
2. Pressed tightly together
   "with lips compressed";
   - tight
    
3. (biology) flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
   "The compressed body of the flounder allows it to lie flat on the ocean floor";
   - flat

1. Make more compact by or as if by pressing
   "compress the data";
   - compact, pack together
    
2. Bring together or compress
   "she compressed her lips";
   - constrict, squeeze, compact, contract, press

See also: closed, compressible, shut, thin

Type of: force, sardine [informal], squash, squeeze, tighten, wedge

Encyclopedia: Compressed