Definition of compresses:
(v) :
(transitive) To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.
(v) :
(transitive) To condense into a more economic, easier format.
(v) :
(computing, transitive) To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.
(v) :
(intransitive) To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format.
(v) :
(transitive) To abridge.
(v) :
(physics, transitive) To make a pulse or particle bunch shorter by applying dispersion to it.