Usually means: Increase pressure in a container.
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  1. pressurize: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pressurize: Merriam-Webster
  3. pressurize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pressurize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pressurize: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pressurize: Vocabulary.com
  7. pressurize: Wordnik
  8. pressurize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pressurize: Wiktionary
  10. pressurize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pressurize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pressurize: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. pressurize: Dictionary.com
  14. Pressurize: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. pressurize: Rhymezone
  16. pressurize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. pressurize: FreeDictionary.org
  18. pressurize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. pressurize: TheFreeDictionary.com

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  To put (physical) pressure on; to put under pressure.
▸ verb:  To coerce, put under duress; to pressure.

Similar:
supercharge, pressurise, press, prease, lean on, stress out, enforce, posturise, drive, charge, more...

Opposite:
depressurize, unpressurize, relax, release

Types:
inflate, compress, pump, more...



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Similar:
supercharge, pressurise, press, prease, lean on, stress out, enforce, posturise, drive, charge, more...

Opposite:
depressurize, unpressurize, relax, release

Types:
inflate, compress, pump, more...



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