compressible

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

From Latin compressibilis. By surface analysis, compress + -ible.

It will partially fill, however, because air is compressible, and the deeper down it is thrust the more will the air be compressed. — Under the Waves: Diving in Deep Waters, R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Rosa Dartle, entering this way with a noiseless step, when we were close to them, addressed herself to me: ‘You do well,’ she said, ‘indeed, to bring this fellow here!’ Such a concentration of rage and scorn as darkened her face, and flashed in her jet-black eyes, I could not have thought compressible even into that face. — David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
I made my way to the poor child, who was one of the dirtiest little unfortunates I ever saw, and found him very hot and frightened and crying loudly, fixed by the neck between two iron railings, while a milkman and a beadle, with the kindest intentions possible, were endeavouring to drag him back by the legs, under a general impression that his skull was compressible by those means. — Bleak House, Charles Dickens

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