compress

Short definition from Wiktionary

Verb

1. 1
   To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.
2. 2
   To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format.
3. 3
   To condense into a more economic, easier format.
4. 4
   To abridge.
5. 5
   To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.
6. 6
   To embrace sexually.

Noun

1. 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.
2. 2
   A machine for compressing.