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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pressed
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
when
▪ A less ambitious cash-in is the Gorby blaster, above right: the head flashes red and wails when pressed.
▪ These emit a piercing shriek when pressed.
▪ She herself, when pressed, indignantly refuted the suggestion.
▪ Most smoke alarms have a test button which sets off the alarm when pressed.
▪ It is at this point that the anthropologist, when pressed, retreats into impenetrable jungles of ethnographic fact.
▪ Amongst the flowers that turn a very dark colour when pressed are deep red primulas and auriculas, as well as small orchids.
■ NOUN
flower
▪ A pressed flower, Philip had said.
▪ This chapter therefore describes the techniques you will need to follow to obtain perfect pressed flowers.
▪ Another gift that was well received was a book of poetry for which I made a pressed flower bookmark.
▪ You should then decide which area of parcel is going to be decorated with the pressed flowers and foliage.
▪ Despite worries to the contrary, pressed flowers photograph well and make a refreshing change from more conventional forms of artwork.
▪ Apart from the ideas shown in this chapter, there are several other ways of incorporating pressed flowers into hobbies.
▪ After all, flowers always make very successful presents, but long-lasting ones, such as pressed flower pictures, are doubly appreciated.
▪ Arrange your pressed flower design on the piece of card, trying to keep the colours as harmonious as possible.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be hard put/pressed/pushed to do sth
▪ Aunt Edie was in such a rage about it that she was hard put to contain herself.
▪ Governments will then be hard put to get it on to their national statute books by mid-1993.
▪ I can assure you that any busybody would be hard put to it to prove maltreatment!
▪ Leinster will be hard pushed to keep the score within the respectable margins of defeat set by their predecessors.
▪ Once an apology is given, the defendant will be hard put to contest liability later.
▪ The slave's side ... and even Miss Phoebe would be hard put to understand.
▪ With his height and features, he was hard put to pass as a native.
▪ You will be hard pressed to choose a single main course because so many are mouth-watering.
be pressed for time/cash etc
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Aunt Margaret, frail as a pressed flower, seemed too cowed by his presence even to look at him.
▪ Chipboard and other pressed wood products are made with a resin containing formaldehyde, an irritant and suspected carcinogen.
▪ For example, the photograph on the previous page shows how pressed flower designs can be used to decorate photograph frames.
▪ In this way you will quickly be able to find the pressed material you want when you begin designing a picture.
▪ The two main types used are cold pressed and refined.
▪ Thinking of different pressed flower ideas for birthday presents should keep you going for a while!
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pressed

Press \Press\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pressed; p. pr. & vb. n. Pressing.] [F. presser, fr. L. pressare to press, fr. premere, pressum, to press. Cf. Print, v.]

  1. To urge, or act upon, with force, as weight; to act upon by pushing or thrusting, in distinction from pulling; to crowd or compel by a gradual and continued exertion; to bear upon; to squeeze; to compress; as, we press the ground with the feet when we walk; we press the couch on which we repose; we press substances with the hands, fingers, or arms; we are pressed in a crowd.

    Good measure, pressed down, and shaken together.
    --Luke vi. 38.

  2. To squeeze, in order to extract the juice or contents of; to squeeze out, or express, from something.

    From sweet kernels pressed, She tempers dulcet creams.
    --Milton.

    And I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.
    --Gen. xl. 11.

  3. To squeeze in or with suitable instruments or apparatus, in order to compact, make dense, or smooth; as, to press cotton bales, paper, etc.; to smooth by ironing; as, to press clothes.

  4. To embrace closely; to hug.

    Leucothoe shook at these alarms, And pressed Palemon closer in her arms.
    --Pope.

  5. To oppress; to bear hard upon.

    Press not a falling man too far.
    --Shak.

  6. To straiten; to distress; as, to be pressed with want or hunger.

  7. To exercise very powerful or irresistible influence upon or over; to constrain; to force; to compel.

    Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ.
    --Acts xviii. 5.

  8. To try to force (something upon some one); to urge or inculcate with earnestness or importunity; to enforce; as, to press divine truth on an audience.

    He pressed a letter upon me within this hour.
    --Dryden.

    Be sure to press upon him every motive.
    --Addison.

  9. To drive with violence; to hurry; to urge on; to ply hard; as, to press a horse in a race.

    The posts . . . went cut, being hastened and pressed on, by the king's commandment.
    --Esther viii. 14.

    Note: Press differs from drive and strike in usually denoting a slow or continued application of force; whereas drive and strike denote a sudden impulse of force.

    Pressed brick. See under Brick.

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Wiktionary
pressed

  1. Under strain or deprivation. v

  2. 1 (en-past of: press) 2 contraction of impressed

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WordNet
pressed

adj. compacted by ironing

Wikipedia
Pressed

Pressed is a 2011 Canadian crime drama film directed by Justin Donnelly and starring Luke Goss, Tyler Johnston, Jeffrey Ballard, and Michael Eklund. The movie is the debut directing project for Justin Donnelly.

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Usage examples of "pressed".

His chief accuser, who was one of the Consuls of the year, pressed the charges of extortion with great malice.

Today, in the dark tangy-wood-scented bedroom, Ambler pinned her to the stark oak bed and pressed into herhard, hard.

Mattis pressed toward Baghdad, he was anticipating a head-on collision with the Al Nida Division, deployed south and east of the city.

I took it in both of mine and pressed the gnarled fingers back, rubbing my thumb gently over the thickened palmar aponeurosis that was trapping the tendons.

But among the crowd of friends and admirers who, coming from all parts, pressed around the little pink house, the most amazed of all was Marius, the blind cabinet-maker, unable to contain his intense delight at the sudden burning of so much incense before his idol, for to him it had seemed that this day of apotheosis would never dawn!

Louise arrived, lay down with her buttocks pressed over the back wound and applied two tongues to the healing task.

Her heavy perfume assaulted him, drowning out the appetizing odors of well-prepared food, and her denim-encased thigh pressed up right against his.

Major earnestly pressed to conduct Camilla to this coterie, assuring her Mrs.

Woodrow Wilson, in the exchange of notes which led to the armistice, had pressed for the abolition of the Hohenzollern militarist autocracy, and the Germans had seemingly obliged him, although reluctantly.

Her round breasts jutting through the purple tunic of house Barca pressed against Timon.

He pressed the firing button and a bright line of fire sped from the Carnie into the Batwing, a rope of death.

When the male bedin stepped aside to reveal me to the hizah, I clutched my robe tighter and immediately fell to my knees, bowing with my fists pressed to my forehead and my head to the white silk.

A dozen Benji warriors stood with their fierce faces pressed against the screen door, lined up along the windows.

We pressed on through the crowd, through many gates, past the paddock where the jockeys bring the horses out and parade around for a while before each race so the bettors can get a good look.

Mars pressed the same incubus upon all newcomers to her soil: a nightmare of falling, falling, falling into bottomless space.