#physical compression

• To press — A rare, regional, or archaic verbal form meaning to squeeze, press, crowd, or apply physical pressure on a surface or object (a phonetic variant or partial derivative semantically related to the action of pressing/squeezing). It is sometimes used in local dialects to describe compacting soil or tightly fixing bonds.
• Compaction — The act of compacting or pressing and its result; a physical process of ramming, squeezing, or tightly packing a substance or bulk material, carried out to reduce its volume or increase its structural density. It appears exclusively in local dialects of certain rural communities.
• Compacted — Having been tightly squeezed, pressed, rammed, or forcefully packed together; a material, soil, or object that has reduced its volume following the compacting process, becoming dense, solid, or tightly fixed in bonds.
• To flatten — A rare regional or archaic verbal form meaning to flatten, smooth out, ram, or level a surface (especially the soil or soft clay), being partially a shortened phonetic variant or related to the action of flattening.