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Pressurize

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

v. To maintain normal air pressure in (an enclosure, as an aircraft or submarine).

v. To put (gas or liquid) under a greater than normal pressure.

v. To design to resist pressure.

v. To pressure-cook.

v. Informal To subject to excessive stress, strain, or vexation: an executive who was pressurized by a heavy workload.

v. To put pressure on; to put under pressure.

v. increase the pressure in or of

v. maintain a certain pressure

v. increase the pressure on a gas or liquid

"Yet, I wonder how the administration is able to "pressurize" powerful corporate media, which are financially independent of government subsidies."

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Words that are more generic or abstract

correct set adjust maintain hold

Words with the same terminal sound

depressurize

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