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"5": "to press hard/together"
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"text": "He held a cold compress over the sprain.",
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"A multiply folded piece of cloth, a pouch of ice, etc., used to apply to a patient's skin, cover the dressing of wounds, and placed with the aid of a bandage to apply pressure on an injury."
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"(medicine) A multiply folded piece of cloth, a pouch of ice, etc., used to apply to a patient's skin, cover the dressing of wounds, and placed with the aid of a bandage to apply pressure on an injury."
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"A machine for compressing."
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "komprés",
"sense": "cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "компре́с"
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"code": "cmn",
"english": "cold",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "lěngfū",
"sense": "cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds",
"word": "冷敷"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds",
"word": "熱敷"
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{
"code": "cmn",
"english": "hot",
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"roman": "rèfū",
"sense": "cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds",
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{
"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds",
"word": "濕布"
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"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "shībù",
"sense": "cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds",
"word": "湿布"
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"sense": "cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds",
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"code": "da",
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"sense": "cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds",
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"word": "kompres"
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds",
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"word": "kompres"
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "compresse"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Kompresse"
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{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "komprésa",
"sense": "cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "κομπρέσα"
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"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "splēníon",
"sense": "cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds",
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"word": "σπληνίον"
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{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds",
"word": "borogatás"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "compressa"
},
{
"alt": "しっぷ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "shippu",
"sense": "cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds",
"word": "湿布"
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{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "fōmentum"
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"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "kompress"
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"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "kompress"
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{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "compressa"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "okład"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "compressa"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kompréss",
"sense": "cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "компре́сс"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "compresa"
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{
"code": "txb",
"lang": "Tocharian B",
"sense": "cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds",
"word": "tsatsāpar"
}
],
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}
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