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[compress 词源字典] - compress: see press
[compress etymology, compress origin, 英语词源] - compress (v.)
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- late 14c., "to press (something) together," from Old French compresser "compress, put under pressure," from Latin compressare "to press together," frequentative of comprimere "to squeeze," from com- "together" (see com-) + premere "to press" (see press (v.1)). Related: Compressed; compressing.
- compress (n.)
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- 1590s in the surgical sense, from compress (v.).