单词 | pressured |
释义 | pressuredadj. Also with modifying word. 1. a. Of work, affairs, etc.: stressful; urgent, pressing.Recorded earliest in high-pressured adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > [adjective] > pressurizing > pressurized pressured1868 pressurized1953 1868 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 7 Aug. 672/1 The memories of men are short in this high-pressured age. 1910 Amateur Photographer & Photogr. News 16 Aug. 162/1 It does not at first sound an easy task to gain an entrée into the most fastidious and high-pressured editorial offices. 1954 Mansfield (Ohio) News-Jrnl. 15 Sept. 38 (advt.) Deeply penetrating motorized massage that has proven to be dramatically effective,..aiding in soothing the tension and the muscle aches of your pressured work day. 1971 C. Bonington Annapurna South Face iii. 32 I..was near to exhaustion from weeks of pressured work and worry. 1999 N.Y. Times 15 Feb. b5/2 Police work is highly pressured work. It's very intense. b. Of a person: under (non-physical) pressure; feeling emotional or psychological stress; (also) coerced. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > obedience > compulsion > [adjective] > compelled (of persons) coactc1430 needyc1430 constrained1609 compulsive1611 obtruded1649 enforced1654 necessary1724 necessiated1727 compulsory1806 coerced1836 bulldozered1876 pressured1889 1889 Sat. Rev. 2 Feb. 121/2 We have never ourselves greatly believed in the over-pressured boy as far as health goes. 1913 Rev. of Theol. & Philos. 8 149 Nor is there a trace of the unwholesomeness of the over-pressured infant prodigy. 1947 Kiplinger Mag. Jan. 12 The newspaper turned on the heat by printing the names of the old buildings' owners. The pressured landlords acted. 1951 Los Angeles Times 29 May ii. 5/6 Meantime, though, the reader will have met..the men who are so pressured that they are dishonest in spite of themselves. 1976 Times 8 July 2/5 The personalities of Joseph Markham and later Clive Mildoon began as fantasies, providing relief for the pressured and overburdened public figure of Mr John Stonehouse. 1995 C. L. Green John Betjeman Lett. (1996) x. 516 Gradually JB stopped feeling quite so pressured. 2004 D. Kelleher & G. Cahill in D. Kelleher & G. Leavey Identity & Health v. 92 She became very pressured at work..and so retired. 2. Containing gas or liquid under pressure; (of a fluid) increased in pressure; pressurized. ΚΠ 1902 Western Field Sept. 123/2 O! yes, indeed. It is an extremely low pressured engine. 1915 D. C. Nimmo Nature Songs 121 What storms, fiery storms where the elements pass From the white foaming flood into high pressured gas? 1920 Chicago Tribune 29 Mar. 5/5 When the tornado passes over the roof of a house the higher pressured air inside explodes. 1928 Los Angeles Times 13 Oct. ii. 2/8 The balls will be injected into the pressured casing. 1944 N.Y. Times 26 June 23/8 Pressured cabins will permit comfortable flying above bad weather at about four miles altitude. 2003 Machine Design 8 May 80/1 Bearings using porous surface compensation..issue pressured air from an entire bearing face through millions of micron-sized pores. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1868 |
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