Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To lay flat; press closely (to or together).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb See
appressed .
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Examples
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He believes that birds when frightened, as a general rule, closely adpress all their feathers, and their consequently diminished size is often astonishing.
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