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Definition:

the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure; "he gave the button a press"; "he used pressure to stop the bleeding"; "at the pressing of a button";

a force that compels; "the public brought pressure to bear on the government";

the somatic sensation of pressure; "the sensitivity of his skin to pressure and temperature was normal";

the force applied to a unit area of surface; measured in pascals (SI unit) or in dynes (cgs unit); "the compressed gas exerts an increased pressure";

the state of urgently demanding notice or attention; "the press of business matters";

an oppressive condition of physical or mental or social or economic distress;

to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"; "He squeezed her for information";

exert pressure on someone through threats;

Hyponyms: impression, compression, compressing, decompression, decompressing, blood pressure, gas pressure, head, hydrostatic head, intraocular pressure, oil pressure, osmotic pressure, radiation pressure, corpuscular-radiation pressure, sound pressure, instantaneous sound pressure, suction, vapor pressure, vapour pressure, turn up the heat, turn up the pressure, drive, bludgeon, steamroller, steamroll, squeeze for, dragoon, sandbag, railroad, terrorize, terrorise, bring oneself

Derivational Morphology: compress, constrict, squeeze, compact, contract, press, push, blackmail, blackjack, coerce, hale, force, urge, urge on, exhort, supercharge, pressurize, pressurise, power, imperativeness, insistence, insistency, power play, squeeze play, coercion, compulsion, blackmailer, extortioner, extortionist

Anagrams: press-up, suppress

Language Translations:
Chinese: 压力		Dutch: druk
Finnish: paine		French: pression
German: Druck		Hungarian: nyomás
Indonesian: tekanan		Interlingua: pression
Italian: pressione		Japanese: 圧力 and 気圧
Korean: 압력		Latvian: spiediens
Polish: ciśnienie		Portuguese: pressão
Romanian: presiune		Russian: давление
Spanish: presión		Swedish: tryck
Telugu: పీడనం

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