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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
abetment, actuating, acute, animating, blandishment, burning, buttonholing, cajolement, cajolery, causal, causative, clamant, clamorous, coactive, coaxing, compelling, compulsatory, compulsive, compulsory, concentration, constraining, critical, crucial, crying, decoction, demanding, directive, distillation, draining, driving, dunning, encouragement, exacting, exigent, exorbitant, expression, extortionate, goading, grasping, grave, high-pressure, high-priority, impelling, imperative, imperious, important, importunate, importunateness, importunity, impulsive, inducive, infusion, insistence, insistent, instance, instant, irresistible, loud, major, momentous, motivating, motivational, motive, moving, nagging, needling, persistent, pertinacious, pestering, pivotal, plaguing, plying, portentous, pressure, pricking, prodding, profound, rendering, rendition, restraining, serious, significant, soaking, spurring, squeezing, steeping, taxing, teasing, urgency, urgent, urging, vital, wheedling
Dictionary Results for pressing:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
pressing
    adj 1: compelling immediate action; "too pressing to permit of
           longer delay"; "the urgent words `Hurry! Hurry!'";
           "bridges in urgent need of repair" [syn: pressing,
           urgent]
    n 1: the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure; "he gave the
         button a press"; "he used pressure to stop the bleeding";
         "at the pressing of a button" [syn: press, pressure,
         pressing]
    2: a metal or plastic part that is made by a mechanical press

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Press \Press\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pressed; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Pressing.] [F. presser, fr. L. pressare to press, fr.
   premere, pressum, to press. Cf. Print, v.]
   1. To urge, or act upon, with force, as weight; to act upon
      by pushing or thrusting, in distinction from pulling; to
      crowd or compel by a gradual and continued exertion; to
      bear upon; to squeeze; to compress; as, we press the
      ground with the feet when we walk; we press the couch on
      which we repose; we press substances with the hands,
      fingers, or arms; we are pressed in a crowd.
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            Good measure, pressed down, and shaken together.
                                                  --Luke vi. 38.
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   2. To squeeze, in order to extract the juice or contents of;
      to squeeze out, or express, from something.
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            From sweet kernels pressed,
            She tempers dulcet creams.            --Milton.
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            And I took the grapes, and pressed them into
            Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's
            hand.                                 --Gen. xl. 11.
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   3. To squeeze in or with suitable instruments or apparatus,
      in order to compact, make dense, or smooth; as, to press
      cotton bales, paper, etc.; to smooth by ironing; as, to
      press clothes.
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   4. To embrace closely; to hug.
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            Leucothoe shook at these alarms,
            And pressed Palemon closer in her arms. --Pope.
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   5. To oppress; to bear hard upon.
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            Press not a falling man too far.      --Shak.
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   6. To straiten; to distress; as, to be pressed with want or
      hunger.
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   7. To exercise very powerful or irresistible influence upon
      or over; to constrain; to force; to compel.
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            Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the
            Jews that Jesus was Christ.           --Acts xviii.
                                                  5.
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   8. To try to force (something upon some one); to urge or
      inculcate with earnestness or importunity; to enforce; as,
      to press divine truth on an audience.
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            He pressed a letter upon me within this hour.
                                                  --Dryden.
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            Be sure to press upon him every motive. --Addison.
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   9. To drive with violence; to hurry; to urge on; to ply hard;
      as, to press a horse in a race.
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            The posts . . . went cut, being hastened and pressed
            on, by the king's commandment.        --Esther viii.
                                                  14.
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   Note: Press differs from drive and strike in usually denoting
         a slow or continued application of force; whereas drive
         and strike denote a sudden impulse of force.
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   Pressed brick. See under Brick.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Pressing \Press"ing\, a.
   Urgent; exacting; importunate; as, a pressing necessity. --
   Press"ing*ly, adv.
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