Compress is a term used to describe the process of reducing something in size or volume. The crossword solutions for this term include KILL, PINCH, DIGEST, WAD, CROWD, CONTRACT, DECREASE, EXTINGUISH, ABRIDGE, SHORTEN, ABBREVIATE, COMPACT, CONCENTRATE, CRAM, PACK, and SMUSH, SCRUNCH. These words all refer to different ways of reducing something in size or volume, such as killing something to reduce its population, pinching something to make it smaller, digesting something to break it down into smaller pieces, wadding something up to make it take up less space, crowding something together to make it occupy less space, contracting something to make it smaller, decreasing something to make it smaller, extinguishing something to make it go away, abridging something to make it shorter, shortening something to make it shorter, abbreviating something to make it shorter, compacting something to make it more dense, concentrating something to make it more dense, cramming something to make it fit into a smaller space, packing something to make it fit into a smaller space, smushing something to make it fit into a smaller space, and scrunching something to make it fit into a smaller space.