Compress and Puffed up

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Compress verb - To reduce in size or volume by or as if by pressing parts or members together.

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Puffed up is an antonym for compress.

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Compress is an antonym for puffed up in topics: extend, blow up, become larger, to put in and occupy the whole of, blow up like a balloon.

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