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Definitions of press:

noun: the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure
Example: "He gave the button a press"
noun: a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then smoothly lifted overhead
noun: any machine that exerts pressure to form or shape or cut materials or extract liquids or compress solids
noun: a machine used for printing
noun: clamp to prevent wooden rackets from warping when not in use
noun: the gathering and publishing of news in the form of newspapers or magazines
noun: newspaper writers and photographers
noun: a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes
noun: a dense crowd of people
noun: the state of urgently demanding notice or attention
Example: "The press of business matters"
verb: be urgent
Example: "This is a pressing problem"
verb: place between two surfaces and apply weight or pressure
Example: "Pressed flowers"
verb: exert pressure or force to or upon
Example: "He pressed down on the boards"
verb: make strenuous pushing movements during birth to expel the baby
verb: press from a plastic
Example: "Press a record"
verb: create by pressing
Example: "Press little holes into the soft clay"
verb: crowd closely
Example: "The crowds pressed along the street"
verb: to be oppressive or burdensome
Example: "Weigh heavily on the mind, Something pressed on his mind"
verb: exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for
verb: force or impel in an indicated direction
verb: lift weights
Example: "This guy can press 300 pounds"
verb: ask for or request earnestly
verb: squeeze or press together
Example: "She compressed her lips"
name: A surname (rare: 1 in 100000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #11800)

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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to press: (210 results)
Synonyms:
adjure, beseech, bid, closet, compact, constrict, contract, crush, entreat, exhort, fourth estate, imperativeness, insistence, insistency, jam, military press, pressing, press out, pressure, printing press, public press, push, squeeze, urge, urge on, wardrobe, weigh, weightlift

More general:
advise, article of furniture, be, cast, clamp, counsel, count, create, crowd, demand, estate, estate of the realm, exercise, flatten, flatten out, furniture, machine, make, mass, matter, mold, mould, piece of furniture, plead, print media, pushing, tighten, touch, urgency, weightlifting, work out

More specific:
advocate, armoire, bear down on, bear down, bear on, calender, cheese press, choke, ciderpress, clothes closet, clothespress, coat closet, compressing, compression, convulse, cranch, craunch, crunch, decompressing, decompression, drag down, force, fret, gag, garlic press, grind, hydraulic press, imprint, iron out, iron, knuckle, magazine, mag, mash, newspaper, overbear, pack together, paper, preach, press corps, press down on, prim, punch press, rotary press, scrag, snarl-up, squash, squeeze out, squelch, standing press, strangle, strangulate, throttle, traffic jam, weigh down, winepress, wring out

Often used in the same context:
media, news, pressed

Appears in the definition of:
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