pressed
/pɹɛst/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.12 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of press
adj
Under strain or deprivation.
adj
Recruited by a press gang.
Example Sentences
- "The staff was even more pressed for useful intelligence about the enemy's intentions than it was about the enemy's capabilities."
- "He found himself hard pressed."
- "She did what she always does: laid out a trap, and the well-intended took the bait. Like clockwork. Why do we stay so pressed instead of just ignoring her?"
- "The most obvious source for tracking pressed men is the muster books of the individual ships, for these encompass those impressed both afloat and ashore. Yet the muster books are notoriously uneven in quality as an historical source."
Inflected Forms
more pressed (comparative)
most pressed (superlative)