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PRESSED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Compacted by ironing
Classified under:
Similar:
ironed ((of linens or clothes) smoothed with a hot iron)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb press
Context examples:
Once I pressed him about it.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I pressed on, but in vain.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
If you can but explain to me, Ned, how you came to be there, you will take from my heart a weight which has pressed upon it for all these years.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Martin was the only one capable of handling a boat, and he was pressed into service.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The first ones had been caused by some one forcing an instrument through the slit between the sashes, and the second by the catch being pressed back.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
An ultrasound transducer (probe) is pressed firmly against the skin of the abdomen.
(Abdominal ultrasound, NCI Dictionary)
Emma was not sorry to be pressed.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Marianne pressed her hand and replied, You are very good.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
On Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner's coming up they were all pressed to go into the house and take some refreshment; but this was declined, and they parted on each side with utmost politeness.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
The fangs pressed softly; the pressure increased; the wolf was exerting its last strength in an effort to sink teeth in the food for which it had waited so long.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
