сжать — meaning in English

English meaning

• clamp noun A device used to hold or squeeze objects tightly together.
• clench verb To grip or hold fast.
• compress verb To squeeze or press something into a smaller space.
• contract noun A written or spoken agreement, especially one intended to be enforceable by law.
• grip verb To take hold of something firmly, especially with the hand.
• jam noun A sweet spread made by boiling fruit with sugar until it thickens.
• reap verb To cut and gather a crop, especially grain.
• shrink verb To become or make smaller.
• squash noun A racquet sport played in a walled court with a small rubber ball.
• squeeze verb To press something firmly from two or more sides.
• wring verb To twist and squeeze something, especially wet fabric, to force liquid out of it.

Senses

сжать is used for these senses in English:

• boil down (transitive) To reduce (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core, or implication for action).
• clamp (transitive, intransitive) To fasten in place or together with (or as if with) a clamp.
• clamp (transitive) To hold or grip tightly.
• compress (transitive) To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.
• contract (ambitransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
• grip (transitive) To figuratively take hold of or grasp.
• jam To get something stuck, often (though not necessarily) in a confined space.
• reap (transitive) To cut (for example a grain) with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine

clamp — full definition

1. noun A device used to hold or squeeze objects tightly together.
2. noun A device fitted to a car wheel to stop it being driven until a fine is paid.
3. verb To fasten or hold something tightly in place.
4. verb To immobilise a vehicle using a wheel clamp.

clench — full definition

1. verb To grip or hold fast.
2. verb To close tightly.
3. verb Dated form of clinch (“make certain, finalize”).

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