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compressed definition

com·pressed (kəm prest)

adjective

  1. pressed together; made more compact by pressure
  2. Bot. flattened lengthwise, as the stalk of an aspen leaf
  3. Zool. flattened into a thin, convex, streamlined shape, as the body of the flounder or other flatfish

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