compress

verb/kəmˈprɛs/

Frequency rank: #12,103 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

to press or squeeze something together so that it takes up less space; to reduce the size of data.

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Example sentence

You can compress the files into a single zip archive to save disk space.

Synonyms & related words

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