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pressingadjective needing immediate attentionshe had pressing business on the other side of town acute, burning, clamant, compelling, critical, crying, dire, emergent, exigent, imperative, imperious, importunate, instant, necessitous, urgent demanding, extreme, immediate, insistent, intense, overridingcrucial, desperate, grave, life-and-death(also life-or-death), serious, severe, vitaldangerous, explosive, hazardous, perilous, precarious, unstable noncritical, nonurgent incidental, low-pressure, minor, negligible, trivial, unimportantnonthreatening, safe, stable to take or make use of under a guise of authority but without actual rightthe fleeing bank robber pressed a nearby taxi into service as a getaway car appropriating, arrogating, commandeering, converting, expropriating, pirating, preempting, seizing, taking over, usurping annexing, attaching, claiming, confiscating, impounding, repossessing, sequesteringassuming, collaring, grabbing, grasping, snatching, stealing, wrenching, wrestingdespoiling, looting, pillagingencroaching, infringing, invading, occupying, preoccupying, trespassingembezzling, misapplying, misappropriating, misusing, peculating to push steadily against with some forcean old doorbell that requires you to press the button hard bearing (down on), depressing, shoving, weighing (on or upon) compressing, mashing, punching, squashing, squeezing, squishing, squooshingcompelling, forcing, pressuringleaning (on or against), musclingdriving, propelling, thrustingcompacting, condensing, constricting, contracting, crushing, scrunching, wringingcramming, jamming, jam-packing, packing, stuffing, wedging to apply external pressure on so as to force out the juice or contents ofmy family will only drink juice from freshly pressed oranges to gather into a closely packed groupeveryone pressed around me to see the pictures bunching, clustering, crowding, huddling, piling assembling, collecting, concentering, concentrating, conglomerating, congregating, convening, converging, flocking, forgathering(or foregathering), herding, swarming, throngingencircling, mobbing, surroundingembracing, hugging breaking up, disbanding, dispersing, splitting (up) to force one's waywe continued to press deeper and deeper into the tangled rain forest boring, bulldozing, bulling, crashing, elbowing, jamming, jostling, muscling, pushing, shouldering, squeezing ramming, shoving, thrusting to cause (a person) to give in to pressurea manager pressed by a business crisis to return from his vacation ahead of schedule blackjacking, coercing, compelling, constraining, dragooning, driving, forcing, impelling, impressing, making, muscling, obligating, obliging, pressuring, sandbagging browbeating, bulldozing, bullying, cowing, hectoring, intimidatingblackmailing, high-pressuring, menacing, shaming, terrorizing, threateningdraggingbadgering, harassing, hounding twisting one's arm allowing, letting, permittingarguing, convincing, inducing, moving, persuading, prevailing (on or upon), satisfying, talking (into), winning (over) to try to persuade (someone) through earnest appeals to follow a course of actionpressed us to go with them to the school board meeting egging (on), encouraging, exhorting, goading, nudging, prodding, prompting, urging driving, propelling, spurring, stimulatinghurrying, hustling, pushing, rushingadjuring, beseeching, imploring, importuningblandishing, cajoling, coaxing, soft-soaping, wheedlinghigh-pressuring, nagging, needling, pressuringfomenting, inciting, instigating, provoking, stirring (up) deterring, discouraging, dissuadingbraking, checking, constraining, curbing, holding back, inhibiting, restraining to indicate the importance of by centering attention onan office e-mail that presses the need for greater vigilance concerning building security accenting, accentuating, emphasizing, featuring, foregrounding, highlighting, illuminating, playing up, pointing (up), punctuating, stressing focusing(also focussing), identifying, pinpointing, spotlightingadvertising, boosting, plugging, promoting, publicizingoverplaying bearing down on, making much of de-emphasizing, playing down toning (down), underemphasizing, understatingbelittling, discounting, disparaging, minimizing in 1591 |