Compressed
Compressed adjective - Pressed tightly together.
Shrink and compressed are semantically related. in compact topic. In some cases you can use "Shrink" instead a verb "Compressed".
Shrink
Shrink verb - To become smaller in size or volume through the drawing together of particles of matter.
Compressed and shrink are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace term "Compressed" with "Shrink", this verbs are similar.
Both words in one sentence
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It didn't shrink you neatly, it compressed (that is, crushed) your tissues down to the size of a doll, so it was quite lethal, and left a teeny tiny corpse.
Source: Impossibly Cool Weapon -
It had another layer of shrink wrap inside, which had another layer, which had another... although just before Franklin and Phineas would have killed him for spending their drug money on plastic bags, there was indeed a tightly compressed bag of marijuana at the very center.
Source: Matryoshka Object -
Ray Palmer was a physicist who found a meteor made of "white dwarf star matter" that had shrinking powers (white dwarfs are "compressed" stars and so smaller than normal) so he used it to create a costume that gave him the power to shrink (all the way to subatomic size!) and also change his weight.
Source: Comic Book / The Atom
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