v
(transitive) To press close to.
v
(obsolete) To hunt, to seek with vigilance.
v
(intransitive, figuratively) To tighten one's belt.
v
(intransitive) To become more optimistic.
n
The amount of strain which can cause something to break, according to the force or weight placed on it. Many materials, such as lines and ropes, have a specified breaking strain.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To narrow, especially by application of pressure.
v
(intransitive) (of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably.
v
(obsolete) To squeeze, press, embrace; to constrain, oppress.
v
(transitive, archaic) To starch and iron.
v
(transitive, Rastafari) To oppress.
v
(obsolete) To steep or submerge.
v
(transitive, figuratively) To drive as if by a fillip (noun sense 1); to excite, stimulate, whet.
n
(slang) A stitch-up (act arranged to incriminate somebody).
v
To make flat (something rough, folded or bumpy).
v
(transitive, rare, archaic) To cover completely, cover over; to cover up, conceal.
adj
Pushing or pressing forward.
adj
(archaic) Brought to the surface.
n
(often attributive) A material placed such that it overlaps another.
v
(transitive, obsolete) Physically to press down on (someone) with harmful effects; to smother, crush.
v
(transitive) To surpass in bowing.
n
(archaic) That which jets out or projects; a protrusion.
v
(transitive, rare) To push or force outward.
v
(transitive) To laminate with an outer layer.
v
(transitive, figuratively) To superficially hide or disguise (a problem or a defect) without addressing it; to provide a veneer of normality or success.
v
To induce or influence (one's peers).
v
(intransitive) to impact
v
(transitive, intransitive, nonstandard) To make or become perked or perky.
v
(transitive) To press upon; to urge persistently.
v
Obsolete form of press. [(transitive, intransitive) To exert weight or force against, to act upon with force or weight; to exert pressure upon.]
v
(Scotland) Obsolete form of press. [(transitive, intransitive) To exert weight or force against, to act upon with force or weight; to exert pressure upon.]
n
(psychology) In personology, any environmental factor that arouses a need in the individual.
v
Press from a plastic, as of records.
n
(rare) Pressure or an act of applying pressure.
n
(psychology) speech that is pressured, as in pressure of speech
n
One who or that which exerts pressure.
n
An act or instance of pressuring.
v
To put pressure on; to put under pressure.
n
(non-idiomatic) The capacity to exert power in a physical pull.
v
(intransitive) To tense the muscles in the abdomen in order to give birth or defecate.
v
Alternative form of put hair on someone's chest (“to make one manly and vigorous”). [(idiomatic) To make a person (especially a male) stronger or more masculine or mature.]
v
Alternative form of redd up [(dialect, chiefly Scotland or US, western Pennsylvania) To clean up, especially a room.]
v
Alternative form of redd up [(dialect, chiefly Scotland or US, western Pennsylvania) To clean up, especially a room.]
v
Alternative spelling of sack up (only in the "become more manly" meaning) [(transitive) To put (something) in a sack.]
v
(transitive) to make more exotic or fun
v
(transitive) To put on (very tight clothes).
n
One who, or that which, stanches or stops a flow.
v
To urge with importunity; to press.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To cause to project or swell out; to enlarge affectedly; to strut.
v
(economics) To make money harder to borrow or obtain.
v
(figuratively) To be more frugal; to make difficult economic savings due to a lowering of expected income.
v
(idiomatic, colloquial) To decrease spending or disallow increased spending; to increase control of spending.
v
(transitive) To fill with enthusiasm; to intoxicate, give pleasure to ( + to an object of interest or excitement).
v
(idiomatic) To increase the pressure of a situation.
v
(transitive, rare) To pluck up; pull up; deracinate.
v
(transitive) To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.
v
To draw (stitches etc.) tight.
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