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PACK TOGETHER
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make more compact by or as if by pressing
Example:
compress the data
Synonyms:
compact; compress; pack together
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "pack together" is one way to...):
force; squeeze; wedge (squeeze like a wedge into a tight space)
"Pack together" entails doing...:
press (exert pressure or force to or upon)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pack together"):
pack; tamp; tamp down (press down tightly)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
