Contact and joining
Synonyms for compress
The synonym for compress recorded in this bank is compact, in the sense "make more compact by or as if by pressing". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for compress
- compactverb, in the sense "make more compact by or as if by pressing"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for compress.
make more compact by or as if by pressing
Compress the data.
The true synonym
compact
Same sentence, swapped: Compact the data.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- decompress
- impact
- abstract
Where compress turns up in the game
compress is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play compress
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so compress reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other contact and joining words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. compress carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.