pressurise in English

verb
1
produce or maintain raised pressure artificially in (a gas or its container).
the mixture was pressurized to 1,900 atmospheres
2
attempt to persuade or coerce (someone) into doing something.
the protests were an attempt to pressurize the government into bringing an end to the violence

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1. The team is in good form and can pressurise in attack. This has benefits; we have more chances to score when we pressurise and steal the ball in attack.

2. Synonyms for Chivvy include urge, prod, coerce, goad, pressure, pressurise, pressurize, push, heavy and prompt

3. We have to pressurise and score at the start in order to control the game.

4. There have even been attempts to pressurise Desmond Haynes, the island's sole representative, into joining the boycott.

5. Electricity would be used to heat and pressurise argon gas that is then fed into one of the silos.

6. Their troubles began in the 1950s when they started flying higher and needed to pressurise the cabins of their passenger planes.

7. Murdoch visited Blair three times personally in order to pressurise him on behalf of George Bush to support the Iraq invasion.

8. "It is rather irresponsible to claim the existence of an entity that has never really been proven and pressurise women — and men, too, " she said.

9. If that high-pressure waste stream is run through a turbine or rotor, energy can be recovered and used to pressurise the incoming seawater.

10. Using legal means to intimidate or pressurise companies in business negotiations at lower levels is not at all surprising; it happens quite a lot.

11. Moir, or her editors, or both, misjudged the speed and breadth of the real-time web and social media in their power to highlight and pressurise at speed and with force.