To bind fast; to constrict; to contract; to cause parts to draw together; to compress.
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To draw together; to render narrower or smaller; to bind; to cramp; to contract or cause to shrink.
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To bind fast; to constrict; to contract; to cause parts to draw together; to compress.
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To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.
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To contract violently and irregulary, as the muscular parts of an animal body; to shake with irregular spasms, as in excessive laughter, or in agony…
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See 1st Frith.
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To stop the mouth of, by thrusting sometimes in, so as to hinder speaking; hence, to silence by authority or by violence; not to allow freedom of spe…
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To bear down or carry down, as by excess of weight, power, force, etc.; to overcome; to suppress.
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The privet.
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Something thin, lean, or rough; a bony piece; especially, a bony neckpiece of meat; hence, humorously or in contempt, the neck.
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To compress the windpipe of (a person or animal) until death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to death by compressing the throat, as wi…
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Strangulated.
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To draw tighter; to straiten; to make more close in any manner.
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Confinement to a narrow space.
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Confinement to a narrow space.
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Capable of being pressed together or forced into a narrower compass, as an elastic or spongy substance.
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Capable of being pressed together or forced into a narrower compass, as an elastic or spongy substance.
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of Compress
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of Compress
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The act of compressing, or state of being compressed.
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The act of compressing, or state of being compressed.
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Anything which serves to compress
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Anything which serves to compress
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Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.
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To press or squeeze together; to force into a narrower compass; to reduce the volume of by pressure; to compact; to condense; as, to compress air or…
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To dawn together; to contract; to force to contract itself; to constrict; to cause to shrink.
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To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.
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Of little breadth; not wide or broad; having little distance from side to side; as, a narrow board; a narrow street; a narrow hem.
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An East Indian insectivore (Tupaia ferruginea). It is arboreal in its habits, and has a bushy tail. The fur is soft, and varies from rusty red to mar…
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To press between two bodies; to press together closely; to compress; often, to compress so as to expel juice, moisture, etc.; as, to squeeze an orang…
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