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compressible

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com·press·i·ble  (km-prs-bl)
adj.
That can be compressed: compressible packing materials; a compressible box.
com·pressi·bili·ty, com·pressi·ble·ness n.
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Adj.1.compressible - capable of being compressed or made more compact; "compressible packing materials"; "a compressible box"
incompressible - incapable of being compressed; resisting compression; "mounds of incompressible garbage"
2.compressible - capable of being easily compressed
squeezable
soft - yielding readily to pressure or weight


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Weak and well-meaning people would have desponded under these circumstances; but your genuine Rogue is a man of elastic temperament, not easily compressible under any pressure of disaster.
A Rogue's Life by Collins, Wilkie View in context
I made my way to the poor child, who was one of the dirtiest little unfortunates I ever saw, and found him very hot and frightened and crying loudly, fixed by the neck between two iron railings, while a milkman and a beadle, with the kindest intentions possible, were endeavouring to drag him back by the legs, under a general impression that his skull was compressible by those means.
Bleak House by Dickens, Charles View in context
Such a concentration of rage and scorn as darkened her face, and flashed in her jet-black eyes, I could not have thought compressible even into that face.
David Copperfield by Dickens, Charles View in context
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