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Pressing

adjective

1.

Compelling immediate action. Synonym: urgent. "The urgent words 'Hurry! Hurry!'" , "Bridges in urgent need of repair"

noun

1.

The act of pressing; the exertion of pressure. Synonyms: press, pressure. "He used pressure to stop the bleeding" , "At the pressing of a button"

2.

A metal or plastic part that is made by a mechanical press.

Press

verb

(past & past part. pressed; pres. part. pressing)

1.

Exert pressure or force to or upon. "Press your thumb on this spot"

2.

Force or impel in an indicated direction. Synonyms: exhort, urge, urge on.

3.

To be oppressive or burdensome. Synonym: weigh. "Something pressed on his mind"

4.

Place between two surfaces and apply weight or pressure.

5.

Squeeze or press together. Synonyms: compact, compress, constrict, contract, squeeze. "The spasm contracted the muscle"

6.

Crowd closely.

7.

Create by pressing.

8.

Be urgent.

9.

Exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for. Synonyms: agitate, campaign, crusade, fight, push. "She is crusading for women's rights" , "The Dean is pushing for his favorite candidate"

10.

Press from a plastic. Synonym: press out.

11.

Make strenuous pushing movements during birth to expel the baby. Synonym: push.

12.

Press and smooth with a heated iron. Synonyms: iron, iron out. "She stood there ironing"

13.

Lift weights. Synonyms: weight-lift, weightlift.

14.

Ask for or request earnestly. Synonyms: adjure, beseech, bid, conjure, entreat.

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"Pressing" Quotes from Famous Books

... 1848.*—In the meantime, the Austrians were pressing their demand for constitutionalism. The framing of the instrument which had been promised was intrusted by the Emperor to the ministers, and early in April there was submitted to an informal gathering of thirty ...

— The Governments of Europe • Frederic Austin Ogg

... said Bartja, pressing Sappho's hand unperceived. And then, turning to Rhodopis again, he begged her to delay no longer in trusting her dearest treasure to his care,—a treasure whose worth he knew ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... juguli) he tells us threatens speedy death. The mouth of the patient is to be kept open by a wooden gag, a bandage passed beneath the jaw and held by the physician, who places his feet upon the shoulders of the patient and pressing down upon them while he elevates the head by the bandage, endeavors to restore the displaced bone to its normal position. Inunctions of ...

— Gilbertus Anglicus - Medicine of the Thirteenth Century • Henry Ebenezer Handerson

... the ledge shelved a degree or two more steeply, or had it been smooth or slippery with rain, he must have fallen backward into the chasm. As it was, his weight rested so far forward upon his arms that, pressing his elbows down upon the rock, he heaved himself over on the right side of the balance, fell on his face and chest, and so wriggled forward until ...

— Fort Amity • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... Christianity's own internal struggles. It was already involved in the fact that the Christian Church had been joined by cultured Greeks, who felt the need of justifying their Christianity to themselves and the world, and of presenting it as the desired and certain answer to all the pressing questions ...

— History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) • Adolph Harnack

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