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Pressuring

To encourage or heavily exert force or influence.

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📖 Definitions of "Pressuring"

verb

1
To encourage or heavily exert force or influence.
"Do not let anyone pressure you into buying something you do not want."

noun

1
An act or instance of pressuring.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Pressuring"

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Word	Definition
pressverb	(ambitransitive) To exert weight or force against, to act upon with force or weight; to exert pressure upon.
pressingnoun	Needing urgent attention.
forceverb	(transitive) To make someone or something do something, often regardless of their will.
coerceverb	(transitive) To use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in an attempt to compel one to act against their will.
insistencenoun	An urgent demand.
insistencynoun	The quality of being insistent.
blackmailverb	(transitive) To extort money or favors from (a person) by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, such as injury to reputation, distress of mind, false accusation, etc.
imperativenessnoun	The state or condition of being imperative.
blackjackverb	To strike with a blackjack or similar weapon.
force per unit areanoun	the force applied to a unit area of surface; measured in pascals (si unit) or in dynes (cgs unit)
pressure sensationnoun	the somatic sensation of pressure
pushingnoun	That pushes forward; pressing, driving.
squeezingnoun	The act of pressing; compression.
pinchingnoun	The act of one who or that which pinches.
lobbyingnoun	The act of one who lobbies.
forcingnoun	(horticulture) The art of raising plants at an earlier season than is normal, especially by using a hotbed
pressurisingverb	Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of pressurize. [To put (physical) pressure on; to put under pressure.]
pressurizingverb	To put (physical) pressure on; to put under pressure.
forcementnoun	(obsolete) The act of forcing; compulsion.
suasionnoun	The act of urging or influencing; persuasion.