Russian-English translations for сжима́ть

• clamp
• squash
  When Im thirsty I drink squash; it tastes much nicer than plain water.
  Its a bit of a squash in this small room.
  Somehow, she squashed all her books into her backpack, which was now too heavy to carry
• clench
  He clenched his fist in anger
• clinch
  I already planned to buy the car, but the color was what really clinched it for me.
  to clinch the teeth or the fist
  to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon
• compress
  The force required to compress a spring varies linearly with the displacement.
  Our new model compresses easily, ideal for storage and travel
  This chart compresses the entire audit report into a few lines on a single diagram.
• contract
  Marriage is a contract
  The mafia boss put a contract out on the man who betrayed him
  The snails body contracted into its shell.
• grip
  That suitcase is heavy, so grip the handle firmly
  The glue will begin to grip within five minutes
  After a few slips, the tires gripped the pavement
• jam
  A traffic jam caused us to miss the games first period.
  a jam of logs in a river
  We came up with some new ideas at the game jam.
• shrink
  The dryer shrank my sweater.
  This garment will shrink when wet.
  Molly shrank away from the blows of the whip.
• squeeze
  I squeezed the ball between my hands.
  Please dont squeeze the toothpaste tube in the middle.
  I managed to squeeze the car into that parking space.
• wring
  I didn’t have a towel so I just wrung my hair dry
  Put the berries into a cheesecloth and wring the juice into a bowl
  The police said they would wring the truth out of that heinous criminal.