See Also: Dadaism(dictionary)

recompress (iou) and Dadaism (oh)


recompress (iou)



recompress verb trans. M20.
[from RE-+ COMPRESS verb.]
Compress again; spec. increase again the pressure of air etc. in (a vessel) or acting on (a person).

Dadaism (oh)



also Dada
a movement in European Art and literature in the early 20th century, in which artists and writers aimed to shock people by ignoring accepted ideas and producing strange, unexpected images. Dadaism was the main influence on surrealism, which developed from Dadism in the 1920s.