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to lengthen and shorten / flexible / adjustable / retractable / extensible / telescoping (collapsible)
HSK 7-9
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to withdraw / to pull back / to contract / to shrink / to reduce / abbreviation / also pr. [su4]
HSK 7-9
to concentrate; to condense / (nuclear energy) to enrich / espresso coffee (abbr. for 意式濃縮咖啡|意式浓缩咖啡)
HSK 7-9
to pull back / to shrink / to contract / (physiology) systole
HSK 7-9
to shrink back; to cower
HSK 7-9
to shrink back as the time for battle approaches (idiom) / to get cold feet
data compression
to condense / to concentrate / compression / concentration
to cower; to flinch; to quail; to recoil
HSK 7-9
to compress; compression
HSK 7-9
deflation
(economics) to reduce / to curtail / to cut back / to tighten / austerity / tightening / crunch
HSK 7-9
(computing) lossy compression
abbreviation / short form
compressible
compact / micro- / miniature / to miniaturize
(medicine) (verb and noun) contracture
to decompress / decompression (esp. computer)
to cower / to tremble
cowering / cringing
to curl up shivering (from cold) / timid and trembling (in fear) / to shrink / to cower
to withdraw / to hole up
contraction of the uterus (during childbirth)
(economics) deflation (abbr. for 通貨緊縮|通货紧缩)
uranium enrichment
to wrinkle / wrinkled up
to simplify and condense (a text) / abridged
to wither / to dry up (of a plant) / to atrophy (of muscle, social custom etc)
HSK 7-9
to curl up / to huddle / to cower / cringing


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