press charges
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.56 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I'm pressing charges against you for assaulting me."
- "Of course, I have no intention of pressing any charge!"
- ""Still, it's not as though women don't commit acts of violence. She herself is a prime example, otherwise we wouldn't even be talking about this. I'm pretty sure you'd be within your right to press charges.""
Inflected Forms
presses charges (present, singular)
pressing charges (participle, present)
pressed charges (participle, past)
pressed charges (past)