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pressurize

verb as in squeeze

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Example Sentences

They could pressurize them because the Taliban are looking for legitimacy.

From Time

On Monday, an Air India plane carrying 328 oxygen concentrators, which pull oxygen from the air and pressurize it into higher concentrations for medical use, landed at New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi airport from New York.

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“We have someone we can pressurize now, someone we can persuade,” she says.

Bear sprays are also pressurized to travel further — 30 to 35 feet — than the smaller self-defense products.

He knows the team is depending on him to be aggressive and take shots when he’s open on offense, but his expanded role on the team feels freeing rather than pressurized.

Later, in the last moments of descent, he would snap down the face plate and pressurize the suit.

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On this page you'll find 361 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pressurize, such as: browbeat, bully, intimidate, repress, strong-arm, and suppress.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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