What is another word for compresses?

Pronunciation: [kəmpɹˈɛsɪz] (IPA)

Compresses are commonly used in medical treatments or to reduce swelling for injuries. If you are looking to improve your vocabulary, there are many synonyms for the word compresses. Other terms that can be used instead of compresses include pads, bandages, dressings, wraps, and gauzes. Additionally, you can replace compresses with cold pack, hot pack, or a therapeutic wrap depending upon the context of your sentence. It is always beneficial to have an extensive vocabulary in writing or speaking, especially when dealing with medical or injury-related situations. By using different synonyms for compresses, you can create a more varied and expressive writing style.

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    • Verb, 3rd person singular present
      shrinks.

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Usage examples for Compresses

She is silent, compresses her lips, listens at the window, hearkens to the raging wind, which drives the snow-flakes against the shutters and tears and rattles at the boughs of the giant linden until they shriek from out their long winter sleep.
"Erlach Court"
Ossip Schubin
Alle this he hath sayd to me in an Undertone, in Mother's Presence, she sewing at the Table and we sitting in the Window; and 'tis difficult to tell how much she hears, she for will aske no Questions, and make noe Comments, onlie compresses her Lips, which makes me think she knows.
"Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary"
Anne Manning
Here, Johnny, is some splendid lint for this poor arm, and some of the softest compresses for Carrol's wound.
"Spinning-Wheel Stories"
Louisa May Alcott

Famous quotes with Compresses

  • Sensitivity is the principle of all action. A being, albeit animated, who would feel nothing, would never act, for what would its motive for acting be? God himself is sensitive since he acts. All men are therefore sensitive, and perhaps to the same degree, but not in the same manner. There is a purely passive physical and organic sensitivity which seems to have as its end only the preservation of our bodies and of our species through the direction of pleasure and pain. There is another sensitivity that I call active and moral which is nothing other than the faculty of attaching our affections to beings who are foreign to us. This type, about which study of nerve pairs teaches nothing, seems to offer a fairly clear analogy for souls to the magnetic faculty of bodies. Its strength is in proportion to the relationships we feel between ourselves and other beings, and depending on the nature of these relationships it sometimes acts positively by attraction, sometimes negatively by repulsion, like the poles of a magnet. The positive or attracting action is the simple work of nature, which seeks to extend and reinforce the feeling of our being; the negative or repelling action, which compresses and diminishes the being of another, is a combination produced by reflection. From the former arise all the loving and gentle passions, and from the latter all the hateful and cruel passions.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • One of the most terrible things about the English education System in Ireland is its ruthlessness…it is cold and mechanical, like the ruthlessness of an immensely powerful engine. A machine vast, complicated… It grinds night and day; it obeys immutable and predetermined laws; it is as devoid of understanding, of sympathy, of imagination, as is any other piece of machinery that performs an appointed task. Into it is fed all raw human material in Ireland; it seizes upon it inexorably and rends and compresses and remoulds...
    Patrick Pearse

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