"pressurize" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /ˈpɹɛʃəɹaɪz/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-pressurize.wav [Southern-England] Forms: pressurizes [present, singular, third-person], pressurizing [participle, present], pressurized [participle, past], pressurized [past]
Etymology: pressure + -ize Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|pressure|ize}} pressure + -ize Head templates: {{en-verb}} pressurize (third-person singular simple present pressurizes, present participle pressurizing, simple past and past participle pressurized)
  1. To put (physical) pressure on; to put under pressure. Translations (to put pressure on): поставям под налягане (postavjam pod naljagane) (Bulgarian), pressuritzar (Catalan), paineistaa (Finnish), pressuriser (French), presurizar (Galician), unter Druck setzen (German), pressurizzare (Italian), pressurizar (Portuguese), presuriza (Romanian), stlačiti [perfective] (Serbo-Croatian), presurizar (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-pressurize-en-verb-qavmElyb Disambiguation of 'to put pressure on': 61 39
  2. To coerce, put under duress; to pressure.
    Sense id: en-pressurize-en-verb-bIwXbjjc Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ize Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 42 58 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ize: 42 58
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: pressurise

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