Illustration: Beside an open apartment closet, a woman kneels over a transparent vacuum storage bag containing a thick winter futon. She holds a vacuum hose against the valve while the bag tightens around the bedding, flattening its formerly puffy folds into a dense slab.

JLPT N2suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

圧あっ縮しゅく

asshuku

to compress

Example sentences

  1. その気体きたいは圧縮あっしゅくされてボンベに詰つめ込こまれた。

    The gas was compressed into a gas cylinder.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 布団ふとんは嵩張かさばるので、客布団きゃくぶとんなど使用頻度しようひんどの低ひくい布団ふとんは、圧縮あっしゅく袋ぶくろに入いれて圧縮あっしゅくして保管ほかんするのもいいでしょう。

    Since futons are bulky, it’s a good idea to compress and store futons that are used infrequently, such as guest futons, in a vacuum-sealed storage bag.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 焼やき上あげる際さいに押おして圧縮あっしゅくするかどうかは意見いけんが分わかれている。

    Opinion is divided about pressing it when grilled up.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 圧縮

  • 圧pressure; pushOnアツ・エン・オウKunおす・へす・おさえる
  • 縮shrink; contractOnシュクKunちぢむ・ちぢまる・ちぢめる

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