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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

... Lieut.-Colonel H. B. Jeffreys, had rapidly moved off to the left by sub-divisions for about 1,000 yards, and then onward up the valley. There was no good position for the British guns, except the ridge 2,000 yards to the west of the Kissieberg. But the infantry's need of immediate support was too pressing to allow time for that ridge's occupation. Lieut.-Colonel Jeffreys therefore, by the direction of General Gatacre, caused the 77th battery to come into action near kopje a, the 74th unlimbering on the open veld to ...

— History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) - Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government • Frederick Maurice

... Sally did not see the young man, and so she half forgot him, lost him in the mixture of her more pressing preoccupations. Every morning she rose at eight o'clock, after her mother had left the house for her first situation, and then, breakfasting slowly, she had just time to reach Miss Jubb's by nine. She did not like Miss Jubb, who was a thin-faced ...

— Coquette • Frank Swinnerton

... a gallop! The heavy wild beast was constrained to run a race with the swiftest of steeds. The cord was pressing tightly round its neck, and blindly, helter-skelter, it had to go in a perfectly straight direction till ...

— A Hungarian Nabob • Maurus Jokai

... had replied by pressing Minha's hand. He also had a great wish for his mother to be present at his marriage. Benito had approved the scheme without hesitation, and it was only necessary to persuade Joam Garral. And hence on this day the young men had gone out hunting in the woods, so as to leave ...

— Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon • Jules Verne

... imagined to be our motive in wishing them to visit the ship, I little thought that my pressing them would have so nearly led to fatal results. I shall proceed to explain this remark by relating the startling circumstances from which Escape Cliffs received ...

— Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. • J Lort Stokes

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