Synonyms of the word

pressure

• n. A pressing; a force applied to a surface.
• n. A contrasting force or impulse of any kind.
• n. Distress.
• n. Urgency.
• n. (obsolete) Impression; stamp; character impressed.
• n. (physics) The amount of force that is applied over a given area divided by the size of this area.
• v. (transitive) To encourage or heavily exert force or influence.

blackjack

• n. (card games) A common gambling card game in casinos, where the object is to get as close to 21 without…
• n. (card games) A hand in the game of blackjack consisting of a face card and an ace.
• n. The flag (i.e., a jack) traditionally flown by pirate ships; popularly thought to be a white skull and…
• n. A small, flat, blunt, usually leather-covered weapon loaded with heavy material such as lead or ball bearings,…
• n. Any of several species of weed of genus Bidens, such as Bidens pilosa, in the family Compositae.
• n. A blackjack oak.
• v. To strike with a blackjack or similar weapon.

blackmail

• n. (archaic) A certain rate of money, corn, cattle, or other thing, anciently paid, in the north of England…
• n. Payment of money exacted by means of intimidation; also, extortion of money from a person by threats of…
• n. (English law, historical) Black rent, or rent paid in corn, meat, or the lowest coin, as opposed to white…
• v. (transitive) To extort money or favors from (a person) by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm,…

coerce

• v. (transitive) To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.
• v. (transitive) To use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in attempt to compel one to act against his…
• v. (transitive, computing) To force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another…

compel

• v. (transitive, archaic, literally) To drive together, round up.
• v. (transitive) To overpower; to subdue.
• v. (transitive) To force, constrain or coerce.
• v. (transitive) To exact, extort, (make) produce by force.
• v. (obsolete) To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.
• v. (obsolete) To gather or unite in a crowd or company.
• v. (obsolete) To call forth; to summon.

distress

• n. (Cause of) discomfort.
• n. Serious danger.
• n. (law) A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.
• n. (law) The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
• v. To cause strain or anxiety to someone.
• v. (law) To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain.
• v. To treat an object, such as an antique, to give it an appearance of age.

force

• n. Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or…
• n. Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
• n. (countable) Anything that is able to make a big change in a person or thing.
• n. (countable, physics) A physical quantity that denotes ability to push, pull, twist or accelerate a body…
• n. Something or anything that has the power to produce an effect upon something else.
• n. (countable) A group that aims to attack, control, or constrain.
• n. (uncountable) The ability to attack, control, or constrain.
• n. (countable) A magic trick in which the outcome is known to the magician beforehand, especially one involving…
• n. (law) Legal validity.
• n. (law) Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry", or lawful compulsion.
• n. (linguistics, semantics, pragmatics) Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, …) to…
• n. (science fiction) A binding, metaphysical, and ubiquitous power in the fictional universe of the Star…
• v. (transitive) To violate (a woman); to rape.
• v. (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To exert oneself, to do one's utmost.
• v. (transitive) To compel (someone or something) to do something.
• v. (transitive) To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of.
• v. (transitive) To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb).
• v. (transitive) To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force.
• v. (transitive) To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.).
• v. To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to…
• v. (transitive, baseball) To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return…
• v. (whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold.
• v. (archaic) To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
• v. (archaic) To provide with forces; to reinforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
• v. (obsolete) To allow the force of; to value; to care for.
• n. (countable, Northern England) A waterfall or cascade.
• v. To stuff; to lard; to farce.

hale

• n. (archaic) Health, welfare.
• adj. (dated) Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired.
• v. To drag, pull, especially forcibly.

imperativeness

• n. The state or condition of being imperative.

influence

• n. The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development…
• n. An action exerted by a person or thing with such power on another to cause change.
• n. A person or thing exerting such power or action.
• n. (astrology) An element believed to determine someone's character or individual tendencies, caused by the…
• n. (obsolete) The action of flowing in; influx.
• n. (electricity) Electrostatic induction.
• v. (transitive) To have an affect on using gentle or subtle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify,…
• v. (intransitive) To exert, make use of one's influence.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to flow in or into; infuse; instill.

insistence

• n. the state of being insistent.
• n. an urgent demand.
• n. (fencing) The forcing of an attack through the parry, using strength.

insistency

• n. The quality of being insistent.

obligate

• v. (transitive, Canada, US, Scotland) To bind, compel, constrain, or oblige by a social, legal, or moral…
• v. (transitive, Canada, US, Scotland) To cause to be grateful or indebted; to oblige.
• v. (transitive, Canada, US, Scotland) To commit (money, for example) in order to fulfill an obligation.
• adj. (biology) Able to exist or survive only in a particular environment or by assuming a particular role.
• adj. Absolutely indispensable; essential.

oblige

• v. (transitive) To constrain someone by force or by social, moral or legal means.
• v. (transitive) To do someone a service or favour (hence, originally, creating an obligation).
• v. (intransitive) To be indebted to someone.
• v. (intransitive) To do a service or favour.

press

• n. (countable) A device used to apply pressure to an item.
• n. (countable) A printing machine.
• n. (uncountable) A collective term for the print-based media (both the people and the newspapers).
• n. (countable) A publisher.
• n. (countable, especially in Ireland and Scotland) An enclosed storage space (e.g. closet, cupboard).
• n. (countable, weightlifting) An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the…
• n. (countable, wagering) An additional bet in a golf match that duplicates an existing (usually losing) wager…
• n. (countable) Pure, unfermented grape juice.
• n. A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
• n. (obsolete) A crowd.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) to exert weight or force against, to act upon with with force or weight.
• v. (transitive) to compress, squeeze.
• v. (transitive) to clasp, hold in an embrace; to hug.
• v. (transitive) to reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smooth.
• v. (transitive, sewing) To flatten a selected area of fabric using an iron with an up-and-down, not sliding,…
• v. (transitive) to drive or thrust by pressure, to force in a certain direction.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) to weigh upon, oppress, trouble.
• v. (transitive) to force to a certain end or result; to urge strongly, impel.
• v. To try to force (something upon someone); to urge or inculcate.
• v. (transitive) to hasten, urge onward.
• v. (transitive) to urge, beseech, entreat.
• v. (transitive) to lay stress upon, emphasize.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) to throng, crowd.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) to print.
• v. To force into service, particularly into naval service.

pressing

• adj. Needing urgent attention.
• adj. Insistent, earnest, or persistent.
• n. The application of pressure by a press or other means.
• n. A metal or plastic part made with a press.
• n. The process of improving the appearance of clothing by improving creases and removing wrinkles with a…
• n. A memento preserved by pressing, folding, or drying between the leaves of a flat container, book, or folio…
• n. The extraction of juice from fruit using a press.
• n. A phonograph record; a number of records pressed at the same time.
• n. Urgent insistence.
• v. present participle of press.

push

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or…
• v. (transitive) To continually attempt to persuade (a person) into a particular course of action.
• v. (transitive) To press or urge forward; to drive.
• v. (transitive) To continually promote (a point of view, a product for sale, etc.).
• v. (informal, transitive) To approach; to come close to.
• v. (intransitive) To tense the muscles in the abdomen in order to expel its contents.
• v. (intransitive) To continue to attempt to persuade a person into a particular course of action.
• v. To make a higher bid at an auction.
• v. (poker) To make an all-in bet.
• v. (chess, transitive) To move (a pawn) directly forward.
• v. (computing) To add (a data item) to the top of a stack.
• v. (computing) To publish (an update, etc.) by transmitting it to other computers.
• v. (obsolete) To thrust the points of the horns against; to gore.
• v. To burst out of its pot, as a bud or shoot.
• v. (snooker) To strike the cue ball in such a way that it stays in contact with the cue and object ball at…
• n. A short, directed application of force; an act of pushing.
• n. An act of tensing the muscles of the abdomen in order to expel its contents.
• n. A great effort (to do something).
• n. An attempt to persuade someone into a particular course of action.
• n. (military) A marching or drill maneuver/manoeuvre performed by moving a formation (especially a company…
• n. A wager that results in no loss or gain for the bettor as a result of a tie or even score.
• n. (computing) The addition of a data item to the top of a stack.
• n. (Internet, uncountable) The situation where a server sends data to a client without waiting for a request,…
• n. (dated) A crowd or throng or people.
• n. (snooker) A foul shot in which the cue ball is in contact with the cue and the object ball at the same…
• n. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A pustule; a pimple.

pushing

• v. present participle of push.
• v. Dealing illicit drugs, especially to minors.
• adj. That pushes forward; pressing, driving.
• adj. (now rare) Aggressively assertive; pushy.
• n. The act by which something is pushed.

somatesthesia

• n. awareness of one's own body.

somesthesia

• n. somatesthesia.

squeeze

• v. (transitive) To apply pressure to from two or more sides at once.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To fit into a tight place.
• v. (transitive) To remove something with difficulty, or apparent difficulty.
• v. (transitive) To put in a difficult position by presenting two or more choices.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To oppress with hardships, burdens, or taxes; to harass.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To attempt to score a runner from third by bunting.
• n. A close or tight fit.
• n. (figuratively) A difficult position.
• n. A hug or other affectionate grasp.
• n. (slang) A romantic partner.
• n. (slang) An illicit alcoholic drink made by squeezing Sterno through cheesecloth, etc., and mixing the…
• n. (baseball) The act of bunting in an attempt to score a runner from third.
• n. (card games) A play that forces an opponent to discard a card that gives up one or more tricks.
• n. (caving) A traversal of a narrow passage.
• n. (epigraphy) An impression of an inscription formed by pressing wet paper onto the surface and peeling…
• n. (mining) The gradual closing of workings by the weight of the overlying strata.
• n. (dated) A bribe or fee paid to a middleman, especially in China; the practice of requiring such a bribe…

urgency

• n. The quality or condition of being urgent.
• n. insistence, pressure.

work

• n. (heading, uncountable) Employment.
• n. (heading, uncountable) Effort.
• n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
• n. (heading) Product; the result of effort.
• n. (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
• n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
• v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
• v. (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
• v. (transitive) To embroider with thread.
• v. (transitive) To set into action.
• v. (transitive) To cause to ferment.
• v. (intransitive) To ferment.
• v. (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
• v. (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
• v. (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
• v. (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
• v. (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
• v. (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
• v. (transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
• v. (transitive) To cause to work.
• v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
• v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
• v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled;.
• v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.