Press

Definition: Press

Press

Noun

1. Newspaper writers and photographers.

2. The state of urgently demanding notice or attention; "the press of business matters".

3. Printed matter in the form of newspapers or magazines.

4. A machine used for printing.

5. A dense crowd of people.

6. A tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes.

7. Clamp to prevent wooden rackets from warping when not in use.

8. Any machine that exerts pressure to form or shape or cut materials or extract liquids or compress solids.

9. A weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then smoothly lifted overhead.

10. : the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure; "he gave the button a press"; "he used pressure to stop the bleeding"; "at the pressing of a button".

Verb

1. Exert pressure or force to or upon; "He pressed down on the boards"; "press your thumb on this spot".

2. Force or impel in an indicated direction; "I urged him to finish his studies".

3. To be oppressive or burdensome; "weigh heavily on the mind", "Something pressed on his mind".

4. Place between two surfaces and apply weight or pressure; "pressed flowers".

5. Squeeze or press together; "she compressed her lips".

6. Crowd closely; "The crowds pressed along the street".

7. Create by pressing: "Press little holes into the soft clay".

8. Be urgent; "This is a pressing problem".

9. Exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for; "The liberal party pushed for reforms"; "She is crusading for women's rights"; "The Dean is pushing for his favorite candidate".

10. : press from a plastic, as of records.

11. : make strenuous pushing movements during birth to expel the baby; "Now push hard," said the doctor to the woman".

12. : lift weights.

13. : ask for or request earnestly; "The prophet bid all people to become good persons".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "press" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Mechanical Engineering

Food & Agriculture

Industry

Mechanical Engineering

Personal Care & Hotels

Publishing & Graphic Arts

Sports & Leisure

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

PRESS

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Press

Assemblage

Crowd, throng, group; flood, rush, deluge; rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe; crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party; swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove; atajo; bunch, drive, force, mulada; remuda; roundup; array, bevy, galaxy; corps, company, troop, troupe, task force; army, regiment; (combatants); host;crowd, throng, group; flood, rush, deluge; rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe; crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party; swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove; atajo; bunch, drive, force, mulada; remuda; roundup; array, bevy, galaxy; corps, company, troop, troupe, task force; army, regiment; (combatants); host; (multitude); populousness.

Compulsion

Noun: compulsion, coercion, coaction, constraint, duress, enforcement, press, conscription.

Force upon, press; cram down the throat, thrust down the throat, force down the throat; say it must be done, make a point of, insist upon, take no denial; put down, dragoon.

Gravity

Verb: be heavy. Adjective: gravitate, weigh, press, cumber, load.

Insertion

Obtrude; thrust in, stick in, ram in, stuff in, tuck in, press, in, drive in, pop in, whip in, drop in, put in; impact; empierce; (make a hole).

Motive

Persuasibility, persuasibleness; attractability; impressibility, susceptibility; softness; persuasiveness, attractiveness; tantalization. influence, prompting, dictate, instance; impulse, impulsion; incitement, incitation; press, instigation; provocation; (excitation of feeling); inspiration; persuasion, suasion; encouragement, advocacy; exhortation; advice; solicitation; (request); lobbyism; pull.

Enforce, force; impel; (push); propel; whip, lash, goad, spur, prick, urge; egg on, hound, hurry on; drag; exhort; advise; call upon; press; (request); advocate.

Offer

Hawk about; offer for sale; press; (request); lay at one's feet.

Receptacle

Closet, commode, cupboard, cellaret, chiffonniere, locker, bin, bunker, buffet, press, clothespress, safe, sideboard, drawer, chest of drawers, chest on chest, highboy, lowboy, till, scrutoire, secretary, secretaire, davenport, bookcase, cabinet, canterbury; escritoire, etagere, vargueno, vitrine.

Request

Beg hard, entreat, beseech, plead, supplicate, implore; conjure, adjure; obtest; cry to, kneel to, appeal to; invoke, evoke; impetrate, imprecate, ply, press, urge, beset, importune, dun, tax, clamor for; cry aloud, cry for help; fall on one's knees; throw oneself at the feet of; come down on one's marrowbones.

Crosswords: Press

Norwegian (harassment), Swedish (crusher, oppression, press, pressure, squeezer).

The tree lights up, I press the button No wait, I press the button and -- (Batman Returns; writing credit: Bob Kane; Daniel Waters)

He's got the whole White House press corps asking each other how to spell erudite (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin)

So press a button (Yellow Submarine; writing credit: Al Brodax; Jack Mendelsohn)

What would the press say about that (Short Circuit; writing credit: Brent Maddock; S.S. Wilson)

We're so bound by customs and rituals. Somebody just has to press my button, this button marked Tradition, and I start responding like a trained monkey (Fire; writing credit: Deepa Mehta)

Press try to throw dirt on my name, disturbin my game (Guilty Until Proven Innocent; performing artist: Jay-Z)

And press you lips to mine (It's Not for Me to Say; performing artist: Johnny Mathis)

I got footage in the game press replay (Put Ya Hands Up; performing artist: KISS)

Double breasted pin stripe coat top press (THAT'S KILLER JOE; performing artist: Manhattan Transfer)

But the press let the story leak (Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard; performing artist: Paul Simon)

Why do steam irons have a permanent press setting? (references; author: unknown)

Free Press vs. Trial by Jury: The Sheppard Case (1969)

Press for Time (1966)

Overseas Press Club - Exclusive! (1957)

Press Conference (1956)

Stop Press Girl (1949)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Hamada Printing Press Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Lambrakis Press S.A.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Rural Press Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Singapore Press Holdings Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The Millbrook Press Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Tonality and Atonality in Sixteenth Century Music (Da Capo Press Music Reprint Series) (reference)

• Compressed Image File Formats: JPEG, PNG, GIF, XBM, BMP (ACM Press) (reference)

• Software for Use: A Practical Guide to the Models and Methods of Usage-Centered Design (Acm Press Series) (reference)

• Software Requirements & Specifications: A Lexicon of Practice, Principles and Prejudices (Acm Press Books) (reference)

• The Charles Press Handbook of Current Medical Abbreviations (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Copperas Cove Leader Press (reference)

• Editors - Volume 6 - Writers Guilds And London Correspondents Of Foreign Press (reference)

• Cotton Gin & Oil Mill Press (reference)

• Baker County Press (reference)

• Dearborn Press And Guide (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Is the Press Competent? (reference)

• 20th Century with Mike Wallace - Celebrities, Scandal & The Press (reference)

• Inside the Presidency with Roger Mudd: A Historian's Perspective: Press Wars-Special Presentation (reference)

• 20th Century with Mike Wallace - Uneasy Partners: The Press and the Military (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Press on (reference)

• Private Press (with Bonus Track) [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Beyond Press 4.0 (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• The Taunton Press 070562 Plumbing Code Check (reference)

• Bodum Columbia 8-Cup Stainless-Steel Thermal Press Pot (reference)

• Rowenta DA-75 Steam ' N Press 75 Dual Voltage Travel Steam Iron (reference)

• Kuhn Rikon LaPatisserie Cookie Press and Decorating Set (reference)

• Milwaukee 4204-1 Electromagnetic Drill Press with 1/2" Motor--plus Free Football, a $19.99 Value (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A man responds to a question at a press conference standing at a lecturn, while 2 photographers take his picture. See artwork: OCC-04. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Here Dr. David Sencer is addressing media personnel at a press conference on Legionnaire's Disease in August, 1976. Credit: CDC.

Press conference on Legionnaire's disease held at CDC, Atlanta, GA. Dr. David Sencer, Director, CDC, at podium. Credit: CDC.

Brown and Glenn on Flight Deck Press Conference. Credit: NASA.

NASA Press Conference Regarding Vostok 1 Flight. Credit: NASA.

Global images taken by the Wide-Field Planetary Camera 2on the Hubble Space Telescope. The top image is the Valles Marineris region(centered on roughly 60 degrees longitude), the middle image is the Tharsis region(centered on roughly 160 degrees longitude), and the bottom image is theSyrtis Major region (centered on roughly 270 degrees longitude).These three images are individual frames from one press release photograph. Credit: NASA.

WEMS - The Women's Emergency Map Service WEMS started as a joke passed to press that ran national article Although never a formal service, women functioned in many C&GS jobs during war By war's end, there was more truth to WEMS than cartoonist had visualized. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Lieutenant Jack Bond - victim of a salt-water crocodile attack Newspaper article from the Philippine Free Press. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

The printing press used on the Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship PATHFINDER during World War II. The PATHFINDER was staffed by C&GS hydrographers who were the first to survey AND print maps at sea during combat operations. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Dr. Harris B. Stewart, Chief Oceanographer of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and chief scientist aboard the USC&GS Ship PIONEER during the International Indian Ocean Expedition, discussing depth sounding instruments with the press aboard the Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship PIONEER at Colombo, Ceylon. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Amendment I. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. (reference)

By this, the long wished-for opportunity was offered to "True" Socialism of confronting the political movement with the Socialist demands, of hurling the traditional anathemas against liberalism, against representative government, against bourgeois competition, bourgeois freedom of the press, bourgeois legislation, bourgeois liberty and equality, and of preaching to the masses that they had nothing to gain, and everything to lose, by this bourgeois movement. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

There was no occasion to press the matter farther

He had the courage to press his forehead against the glass, and watch to see if the thing would move

Dante had two brushes in her press.

Press stems, press dirt and rot.

The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Oxford University Press. (references)

These often appear in the popular press, newsletters, or similar periodicals. (references)

For instance, pituitary tumors may press on the optic nerve, causing problems with vision. (references)

Business

Metropolitan press lost 3.2 percent. (references)

These are announced in the daily Egyptian press. (references)

Contact points for projects are included in JBIC press releases. (references)

Children

Guatemala

A July press report suggested that of the 7,760 cases of child sexual abuse considered by the Prosecutor's Office, only 50 resulted in convictions. (references)

Lithuania

The prevalence of authoritarian values in family upbringing discouraged more active measures against child abuse; however, the press reported increases in cruelty to children, including sexual abuse, intentional starvation, beatings, and killings. (references)

Namibia

Disability issues received greater public attention than in previous years, with wider press coverage of the human rights problems that confront persons with disabilities. (references)

Civil Liberties

Bulgaria

Media representatives will be obliged to cover Cabinet activities from a specified location near the Council, only the first few minutes of Council sessions are to be filmed, and media will have to nominate a maximum of five reporters to report from the Council, rather than simply entering with their press cards. (references)

China

A division chief at the Beijing High People's Court indicated in a December 2000 press interview that the Supreme People's Court might be pressed to issue judicial explanations of constitutional press safeguards to local law enforcement officials as a means to expand press freedoms and protect journalists. (references)

Brazil

Penalties for libel under the 1967 Press Law include imprisonment, which is considered extreme by judges and rarely is imposed. (references)

Economic History

Zambia

On at least one occasion, the government infringed on freedom of the press, and it continued to control two of the country's three daily newspapers, contrary to its 1991 campaign promise to privatize government-owned mass media. (references)

Albania

A college of three judges, who are sometimes referred to as a "jury" by the Albanian press, render court verdicts. (references)

Armenia

Although freedom of the press and speech are guaranteed, the government maintains its monopoly over television and radio broadcasting. (references)

Human Rights

Mexico

In September 2000, a newspaper reported that unknown persons taped a phone conversation between then President-elect Fox and his spokesperson; the press speculated that it only could have been CISEN. (references)

Yemen

The committee's chairman claims that he would prefer to increase the activities of the committee, especially in the area of press freedoms, but cites lack of official and financial support as constraints. (references)

Mexico

In a December 2000 press conference in La Realidad, Chiapas, the EZLN's Subcommander Marcos stated that President Fox's initial gestures to resolve the conflict in Chiapas were encouraging and welcomed the choice of Luis H. Alvarez as his Chiapas Peace Coordinator. (references)

Indigenous People

Bangladesh

Larma stated that the various indigenous groups have been pressing for their rights separately, but the mission of this new organization, the Adibashi Adhikar Forum (Indigenous Peoples' Rights Forum), will be to press for those rights collectively. (references)

Honduras

Another group of Lencas staged a protest outside the Supreme Court to press for the release of a jailed colleague. (references)

Namibia

Reports from the NSHR and in the press claim that civilians from the Mafwe and Kxoe San ethnic groups were targeted for harassment during the police campaign against Caprivi separatists in 1998 and continued during the year. (references)

Minorities

China

In March 2000, a Xinjiang court sentenced Rebiya Kadeer, a prominent Uighur businesswoman and former member of the provincial-level Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, to 8 years in prison on charges of "passing state intelligence" to foreigners; according to an official press report, the intelligence she was accused of passing included newspaper articles and a list of names of persons whose cases had been handled by the courts. (references)

China

A Uighur-language press exists in Xinjiang, but it has a very small circulation, and much of the population depends on market rumors for information. (references)

Romania

The fringe press continued to publish anti-Semitic articles. (references)

Political Economy

Mexico

Violence and threats against journalists primarily by narcotraffickers and on occasion by authorities hindered press freedom, and there have been reports in the past of self-censorship. (references)

Guinea

The private press criticized the Government freely, but the Government continued to monopolize the broadcast media, including radio, the most important medium of mass communication. (references)

Morocco

Berbers faced cultural marginalization, and continued to press the Government to preserve their languages and culture. (references)

Political Rights

Nigeria

Several other public officials were scrutinized closely by the press, public, and legislative investigators. (references)

Kazakhstan

In June 1999, Parliament banned the press and other outsiders from observing the vote of confidence in the Government. (references)

Burma

Late in 2000, with encouragement from then-U.N. Special Representative Ismail Razali, the Government initiated talks with Aung San Suu Kyi that produced some relaxation in the restrictions on the NLD. In addition the NLD was able to resume some activities, and press attacks on the NLD and Aung San Suu Kyi ceased. (references)

Trade

Canada

While provincial practices do not fall under the NAFTA discipline, US government agencies at post and in Washington will closely monitor provincial requirements and press for fair treatment of American organizations. (references)

Canada

This "barrier inventory" exercise provides an opportunity to press for further liberalization in services. (references)

India

Import on Export Basis: New or second hand jigs, fixtures, dies (including contour roller dies), moulds (including moulds for die-casting), patterns, press tools and lasts, construction machinery, containers/ packages meant for packing of goods for export and other equipment, can be imported for export without a license by furnishing a Legal Undertaking/Bank Guarantee with the Customs Authorities. (references)

Travel

Czech Rep

Rushing through lunch because of the press of business is considered ill-mannered, and may be insulting to your Czech guest or host. (references)

Bahamas

Exhibit materials, salesmen's samples, photographic and cinematographic equipment belonging to members of the press and special tools for repair work may be imported on a temporary basis, but a bond or deposit may be required. (references)

Women

Congo

Rape is a crime, but the press rarely reported incidents of violence against women or children. (references)

Worker Rights

Cyprus

The law obligates the State to provide protection and support for victims, and the Government made some effort to protect women who brought complaints against employers by allowing them to remain to press charges or facilitating their return home. (references)

Cyprus

However, many of the women are reluctant to press charges, fearing retaliation by employers or deportation. (references)

Greece

New immigration and organized crime laws were passed in May and June that increased protection for women who press charges against their traffickers by allowing them to remain in the country legally and setting aside any previous convictions. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

In the press

Press

Expressions using "press": a press lord ♦ allied press information center ♦ alligator press ♦ arming press ♦ basket press ♦ be in the press ♦ bench press ♦ Bramah press ♦ breach of the press law ♦ Cheese press ♦ cider press ♦ Copperplate press ♦ copying press ♦ correct the press ♦ corrector of the press ♦ Cotton press ♦ Cylinder press ♦ daily press ♦ dissociated Press ♦ down stroke press ♦ Drill press ♦ Drop press ♦ durable press ♦ field press censorship ♦ Finishing press ♦ Fly press ♦ Foot press ♦ free press ♦ freedom of press ♦ freedom of the press ♦ from the press ♦ Gang press ♦ garlic press ♦ Gauffering press ♦ go to press ♦ gutter press ♦ have a good press ♦ Hay press ♦ high intensity press ♦ hydraulic press ♦ Hydrostatic press ♦ incline bench press ♦ lamp press ♦ Liberty of the press ♦ mechanical press ♦ military press ♦ military press information office ♦ Minerva press ♦ mounting press ♦ note press ♦ oil press ♦ olive press ♦ packing press ♦ perfecting press ♦ permanent press ♦ plate press ♦ portal press ♦ power press ♦ press a charge ♦ press a claim ♦ press against ♦ press agency ♦ press agent ♦ press ahead with ♦ press announcement ♦ press association ♦ press attache ♦ press back ♦ press baron ♦ press bed ♦ press box ♦ press bureau ♦ press button ♦ press cage ♦ press cake ♦ press campaign ♦ press card ♦ press charges ♦ press clipping ♦ press comments ♦ press communiqué ♦ press conference ♦ press copy ♦ press corps ♦ press council ♦ press cutting ♦ press cutting agency ♦ press down ♦ press down on ♦ press entourage ♦ press fastener ♦ press flesh ♦ press for ♦ press for an answer ♦ press for payment ♦ press forward ♦ press gallery ♦ press gang ♦ press hard ♦ press hard upon ♦ press head. Additional references.

Beginning with "press": press-arousal, press-bed, press-book, press-box, press-boxes, press-button, press-button war, press-cake, press-corrector, press-cutting, press-cuttings, press-fitted, press-formed, press-forming, press-gallery, press-gang, press-gang smb. into doing smth., press-ganged, press-ganging, press-gangs, press-head, press-hounds, press-lipped, press-marks, press-men, press-on, press-out, press-people, press-provoked, press-release, press-released, press-shy, press-stud, press-studs, press-switch, press-through, press-up, press-ups, press-wheel, press-work.

Ending with "press": hot-off-the-press, pre-press, printing-press, trouser-press.

Containing "press": durable-press fabric, permanent-press fabric, stop-press news.

Afrikaans

pers (violet), druk (oppress, squeeze). (various references)

Albanian

presion (onset, pressure, tension), presë (drop hammer, edge, mill), paraqes (acquaint, bring in, bring up, delineate, demonstrate, denote, develop, display, feature, front, induct, introduce, introduce oneself, obtrude, offer, portray, prefer, present, produce, propound, put, put in, recommend, render, represent, serve, show, stand for, submit), tork, detyroj (bind, bully, coerce, compel, constrain, dragoon, enforce, entail, force, have, haze, impel, keep, make, move, obligate, oblige, outface, pin down, push, rack, screw, strong arm, tie), dyndem (invade, pile, pile into, throng), dyndje (congestion, cram, flux, indraft, indraught, inrush, invasion, irruption, onrush, squash), gazeta, hekuros (iron, smooth), hekurosje (ironing, pressing), makinë shtypi (printer, printing press), bezdis (bore, displease, get, grate, Harrow, hassle, importune, inconvenience, nag, peeve, persecute, pester, pursue, ruffle, tease, trouble, vex), shtypje (crush, dint, oppression, pressure, printing, repression, squeeze, suppression, transcription, trituration), turmë (bevy, concourse, confluence, crew, crowd, drove, flock, herd, horde, huddle, jam, mob, rabble, rat race, rout, ruck, throng), raft (cupboard, rack, shelf), shkel (backslide, break, contravene, disobey, encroach, entrench, evade, go back, impinge, infringe, make inroads into, muscle in, obtrude, offend, outrage, outrun, override, perambulate, poach, pull, step, trample, trample down, trample on, transgress, tread, tread on, trouble), shtrëngoj (bind, brace, buckle, clamp, clasp, clench, clip, clutch, coerce, compel, compress, constrict, enforce, fasten, force, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, hold, hug, jam, keep, oblige, pinch, restrict, screw, shake, squash, squeeze, strain, strangle, tighten, vice, wring), shtrydh (express, extract, extrude, press out, squash, squeeze, squeeze out, strain, wring), shtyhet, shtyj një send, shtyp (bruise, clench, compact, crush, Dent, depress, die, grind, newspapers, oppress, organ, override, pestle, pound, print, push down, quash, quell, repress, run down, run over, scotch, squash, squeeze, stamp, step, strike off, suppress, swat, trample, trample down, triturate, type, tyrannize), ngulmoj (insist, persevere, persist). (various references)

Arabic 

‏إكراه على أداء الخدمة, ‏ضغط بقوة مطردة, ‏ضغط (bear in mind, compress, compressing, compression, crowd, depress, duress, force, hustle, jam, lay stress on smth., lean, lobby, lobbying, pinch, pressure, push, screw, smash, squeeze, strain, stress, telescope, tension), ‏صحافة (journalism), ‏صادر للمصلحة, ‏صر (chirr, creak, grate, insist, jar, persist, play up, rasp, screech, squeak, squeal), ‏جمهرة (bags of, host, huddle, squadron, squash), ‏دفع (actuate, anticipate, bleed, boost, carry, crowd, dig, disburse, drive, eject, encourage, flog, galvanize, give, impulse, instigate, jog, jostle, motivate, nuzzle, pay, pay down, payment, plank, prompt, propel, propulsion, push, remit, render up, repulsion, roll, rouse, shove, spur, sweep, thrust, thrusting, waft, wheel), ‏الكية:مظهر اللبس بعد كيه, ‏عصر (age, compress, compressing, crush, date, eon, epoch, era, period, ream, squeeze, strain, time, update, wring), ‏إستعجل (bustle, dash, hasten, spring, surge), ‏إستخرج أسطوانة مسجلة, ‏إزدحم (overcrowd, throng), ‏أكره على أداء الخدمة العسكرية, ‏ألح (insist, stickle, urge), ‏أدخل (allow, bill, come in, heel, inject, insert, introduce, let in, put in, send in, show in, slot, squeeze, take in, yield), ‏شق طريقه (break, crowd, force one's way, jostle, pass, push, push away, weave), ‏جذب (allure, attract, attraction, catch, charm, engage, entice, hale, haul, magnetize, pull, rivet, strain, tempt), ‏حث (actuate, admonish, debriefing, dub, encourage, encouragement, goad, gun, hurry, impel, incitation, incite, induce, induce to speak, inducement, interest, motivate, motivation, motive, persuade, precipitate, prod, prompt, prompting, propel, provocation, provoke, push on, recommend, rouse, solicit, solicitation, spur, stimulate, stimulation, stir, tempt), ‏كوى (burn, cauterize, presser, sear), ‏كبس (compress, pressure, ram, squeeze), ‏كبح (arrest, bridle, check, contain, control, curb, hamper, hinder, hold, hold back, inhibit, inhibition, keep back, keep down, keep under control, leash, master, prevent, rein, repress, repression, restrain, restraint, steady, subdual, subdue, suppress, suppression, tame, withhold), ‏مكبس (compress, compressor, piston), ‏مطبعة آلة, ‏مضغط, ‏هاجم (assault, attack, batter, belabour, beset, challenge, charge, contravene, dispute, hit, jump, lace, layabout, light into, mount an offensive, peck, prey on, prong, rush, set about, storm, strafe, strike), ‏طباعة (character, engraving, print, typography), ‏واصل (carry on, continue, follow in his footsteps, gear, go on, hold on, keep, persist, proceed, pursue, push, push along, push on, roll on, stay, stick to smth., sustain), ‏عانق (caress, clasp, cuddle, embrace, enfold, fold, grasp, hug, lock, neck, pet), ‏حشد (assemblage, assemble, boodle, cloud, college, concentrate, concourse, confluence, crew, crowd, gather, gathering, horde, host, huddle, legion, loads of, lots of, mob, mobilize, multitude, oodles, pack, pile up, rabble, recall, regiment, throng), ‏تجمع (aggregation, assemblage, assemble, collect, concentrate, concourse, congregation, converge, convergence, flock, gather, gathering, get together, group, grouping, huddle, league, mass, muster, organization, pile up, pool, rally, reassemble), ‏تابع (adherent, attached, citizen, dependent, disciple, follow, follow up, follower, following, forward, function, get on, go ahead, keep an eye on, page, post, pursue, put up with, redirect, satellite, send on, sub, subject, subordinate, subsequent, subservient, subsidiary, tributary, under one's thumb, underlying, urge, vassal), ‏تراكم (accumulate, accumulation, bank, bulk, collect, collection, cumulation, drift, gathering, inure, pack, pile, piling up), ‏سطح (face, flat, flatness, flatten, prostrate, roof, spread, superficies, surface), ‏زحمة (obstruction, scramble, squash, squeeze, throng), ‏كي الملابس (ironing), ‏قولب (pattern, stereotype). (various references)

Bulgarian 

притискане (constriction, jam, jamming, squeeze), издателство (publishers, publishing house), менгеме (clamp, vice, vise), залисия, журналисти, бутаница (jostle), блъсканица (cram, crowd, melee, squash, throng), блъскам (beat, bump up against, dash, hammer, hustle, jostle, knock, moil, pound, push, ram, shove, slam, smite, squash, strike, thump), наблягам на (accentuate, emphasize, stress), преса (mill, presser, print, winepress), належащ съм, притискам (constrict, embosom, jam, pin, pin down, pinch, press down, screw, snuggle, squeeze, strain, strangulate, throng, weight down), подчертавам (accent, accentuate, emphasize, enhance, highlight, insist, play up, point, point out, score under, set off, set out, underline, underscore), печатница (printing house, printing office), печатарска машина (printing press, typesetter), печатане (impression, printing), печат (cachet, impress, print, seal, signet, stamp, surcharge), изстисквам (crush, press out, sap, squeeze, wring), пресовам (calender, extrude, reduce, roll), настоявам на (stick out), стискам (clasp, clench, grasp, pinch, screw, set, squeeze), убеждавам (admonish, argue, assure, coax, convince, exhort, induce, lead, persuade, prevail, satisfy, talk over, urge, win), смачквам (crease, crush, jam out, ruck, rumple, scrunch, smash, squash, wad), тълпа (cloud, concourse, cram, crowd, crush, drove, herd, host, huddle, mob, multitude, rabble, resort, rout, ruck, shoal, squash, throng, train, troop), карам да бърза (hurry, rush, whip on), гладя (grind, iron), вграден шкаф с рафтове, напрежение (effort, electricity, exertion, intension, intensity, pressure, push, strain, stress, stretch, suspense, tension, tensity), не търпя отлагане, стискане (clench, grip, gripe, squeeze, wring), настоявам (aver, insist, persist, represent, require, solicit), натискане (jam, jamming, pressing), натискам се (neck, scramble), натискам (depress, hold down, jam, press down, push down), накарвам да приеме, накарам да вземе, налягам (depress, visit), оглаждам (even, iron, rake, smooth out). (various references)

Chinese 

新闻 (NEWS), 催 (expedite, hurry, prompt, urge). (various references)

Czech

stisknout (constrict, depress, squeeze), lis, lisovat (stamp), naléhavost (imminence, urge, urgency), noviny (Gazette, journal, news, newspaper, paper, tidings), nutit (constrain, drive, hustle, impel, oblige), rekvizice (requisition), žehlit (iron, launder), stisk (grip, squeeze), zmáčknout, stlačit, tisk (print, printing, type), tiskárna (press room, pressroom, print shop, printing house, printing office), tlaèit (hurt, jostle, pack, pinch, push, throng, thrust, trundle, wheel), tlak (head, oppression, pinch, pressure, strain, stress), usilovat (endeavor, endeavour, pursue, strive, struggle), zatížit (encumber, load, weigh down, weight), skříò (cabinet, closet, cupboard, panel). (various references)

Danish

presse (basket press, pressing, squeegee, to press), trykke (oppress, print, squeeze). (various references)

Dutch

pers (Persian). (various references)

Esperanto

presilo, premi (oppress, squeeze), premfiksi (press firmly), urĝi (hurry, urge), gazetaro. (various references)

Faeroese

trýsta (oppress, push, squeeze, thrust), spenna (oppress, squeeze, strech, wind up), skunda (hurry, urge), kroysta (oppress, squeeze), bløð. (various references)

Farsi 

فشار (Brunt, Constraint, Hustle, Impact, Oppression, Pressure, Squeeze, Strain, Stress, Tension, Thrust, Zip), فشردن زوردادن , مطبوعات (Literature), مطبعه (Printer), ماشین چاپ , چاپ (Edition, Impression, Stamp), وارداوردن , جمعیت (Army, Bike, Company, Crowd, Flock, Gang, Group, Habitancy, Heap, Herd, Mob, Party, People, Population, Society, Throng), جراید, اتوزدن (Iron), ازدحام کردن (Crowd, Flock, Huddle, Mob, Overcrowd, Scrouge, Swarm, Throng), ازدحام (Crowd, Drove, Host, Huddle, Hurtle, Rabble, Swarm, Throng, Turnout), دستگاه پرس . (various references)

Finnish

puristin (clamp), puristaa (be tight, compress squeeze, jam, oppress, squeeze). (various references)

French

presse (presses, racket press), serrer (press firmly), pressoir (wine press), presser (press firmly). (various references)

Frisian

drukke (oppress, squeeze). (various references)

German

pressen (cutting, force, huddle, oppress, pressure, squeeze, squeezers, to huddle, to press, to squeeze), Presse (squeezer), drücken (be oppressive, bring down, dampen, depress, discard, force down, hawk, hitting, huddle, keep down, lower, nip, oppress, pinch, pressure, push, pushing, shirk, squeeze, strain, strike, to actuate, to depress, to press, to queeze, to shirk, weigh), drängen (crowd, force, hurry, hustle, insist, push, push out, rush, shove, thrust, to hustle, to press, to rush, urge), bügeln (hammer, iron, iron clothes, ironing, lick, thrash). (various references)

Greek 

πρεσάρω, πιέζω (bear, besiege, calender, coerce, jam, push (for something), squeeze, wring), πιεστήριο (printing press). (various references)

Hebrew 

להצטופף (be pressed, crowd together, huddle, huddle together), עתונות, לנגוש (exact, oppress, urge), לנחוץ (urge), לסרהב (beseech, hasten, importune, urge), לסחוט (exact, pinch, squeeze, tap, wring), לצפף (crowd, thicken), לצופף (compact, crowd), גיהץ (iron), לדחוק (importune, oppress, pack, pinch, squeeze, thrust, urge), מכבש (roller), להאיץ (accelerate, hurry, precipitate, quicken, speed up, urge), להפציר (beg, beseech, entreat, implore, insist, plead, solicit, urge), להלחיץ (oppress, pressure), לכבוש (conquer, occupy, subjugate, take, tread down, vanquish), לחץ (compulsion, distress, duress, force, oppression, pressure, stress), לעסות (knead, massage, squeeze), ללחוץ (crush, force, jam, oppress, push, stress), למעוך (bruise, crush, pulverize, squash, squeeze, stub), לגהץ (iron, smarten, smooth). (various references)

Hungarian

sajtó, nyomda (letter-press, press office, printing house, printing office), nyomás (cramp, impression, load, pressing, pressure, stress, tension). (various references)

Indonesian

pers, menghimpit (close up), menekan (compress, depress, quash), enyak (stamp, step on, tread on), ceplus, apitan (clamp, extraxtor, intercalation). (various references)

Irish

brúigh (push). (various references)

Italian

premere (be of interest, bear down, bear down on, depress, matter, oppress, pull, push, squeeze), torchio (winepress), stringere (be tight, clasp, clench, clutch, draw up, embrace, enlace, fold, grasp, grip, hug, inlace, make, make it brief, oppress, pinch, squeeze, tighten), pressare (pack), pressa (crowd), cilindrare (calender, roll). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

圧搾器 (compression), プレート電流 (placement test, plain, plain soda, plain yoghurt, plane, planing, plate current, play, play ball, playback, playboy, player, playgirl, playground, play-mode, pray, prayer, precious, pre-incubation, preschool, prescoring, president, press campaign, press center, press club, press conference, press release, pressed ham, prestige, presto, prey, progressive, pro-Olympic), 成型 (cast, mold, plastic surgery), 成形 (cast, mold, plastic surgery), 印刷所 (print shop, printing office), 報道機関 (information media, news organs). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

プレス , ほうどうきかん (information media, news organs), せいけい (cast, direct descent, legitimate line, livelihood, living, mold, orthopedics, plastic surgery, politics and economics, west longitude), いんさつしょ (print shop, printing office), いんさつじょ (print shop, printing office), あっさくき (compression, compressor). (various references)

Korean 

압박. (various references)

Manx

traastey (squeeze, squeezing), preaysal, preays (pressure, stress), lhiannaghey (flake, flatten, laminate, lamination, mangle, mangling), jingey (cram, crowd, crowd up, crowding, crush, embed, jam, let in, move along, press forward, quoin, ram home, shove, shove forward, shoving, throng, thronging, wedge; indentation, wedging), greesaghey (abet, accelerate, agitate, drive, egg on, excitation, excite, excitement, fire, fire enthusiasm, foment, fomentation, foster, incentive, incite, instigate, instigation, prod, provocation, provoke, stir, stir up), faastan, craishtey (model, shape, squeeze), chennid (distress, drive, narrowness, strain, tension, tightness), broojey (bruise, compound, compress, cram, crunch, crush, mash, pound, pulverization, pulverize, push, ram, squash, squelch, stamping), broo (bruise, buzz, contusion, cram, crunch, crush, grind, pounding, pressure, push, ring, squash). (various references)

Papiamen

primi (oppress, squeeze). (various references)

Pig Latin

esspray.(various references)

Polish

prasa, ponaglać (hurry, urge), być pilnym (hurry, urge), ściskać (oppress, squeeze). (various references)

Portuguese

imprensa (printing), prensa (squeezer), prelo (printing press, printing-machine), espremer (crush, oppress, squash, squeeze, wring), comprimir (astringe, compact, compress, constrict, jam, oppress, pack, pinch, pump up, retrench, screw, squeeze, tighten, tuck, wring), apertar (belay, belt, brace, clasp, clip, clutch, constrain, constrict, grasp, jam, narrow, nip, oppress, pinch, ram, run, screw, squeeze, tamp, tighten, wring). (various references)

Romanian

presa (calender, compress, crowd, dun, force, impact, jam, journalism, nip, push, squeeze, stress, urge), presã (mill, newspapers, presser), presare (depression, jam, nip, pressing, push), publucaţie, calandra (calender, roll), grãbi (accelerate, anticipate, bustle, expedite, force, forward, hasten, hurry, hustle, mend one's pace, precipitate, push, push on, quicken, rush, smarten up, speed, spur, wing), gloatã (band, boodle, crowd, drove, flock, heap, herd, mob, multitude, populace, rabble, riff raff, squash, the many, troop), gråbi (hurry, urge), dulap (board, cabinet, case, chest, closet, cupboard, glass case, plank, sideboard, swing boat, wardrobe), mulţime (accumulation, army, array, body, boodle, cloud, cluster, concourse, crowd, dozen, drove, fifty, flock, forest, generality, heap, herd, hive, host, huddle, lashing, manifold, mass, mob, multitude, muster, number, Peck, pile, plenty, populace, quantity, rabble, ream, shoal, sight, squash, stack, swarm, throng), cãlca (break, calender, foot, go, hot-press, infringe, iron, mangle, smooth, step, tread, trespass, violate), asupri (gripe, oppress, override, tyrannize, weigh down, wrong), apãsare (depression, heaviness, jam, oppression, pressure, push, stress, weight), apãsa (bear, bear on, depress, emphasize, jam, oppress, push, push down, squeeze, stress, torment, torture), îngreuna (burden, cumber, load), împinge (crowd, drive, go to extremes, goad, induce, jab, joggle, jostle, move, poke, punt, push, push away, run to an extreme, shove, spurn, thrust), fi apãsãtor, îmboldi (actuate, goad, hound on, hurry, impel, prompt, spur, stimulate, urge into), insista asupra (dwell on, dwell upon, rub in, stress), zori (bustle, cock crow, crowd, daybreak, daylight, dayspring, hasten, hurry, hustle, morning, quicken, reveille, rush, spur, spur on, urge), rãzbate (Pierce), se îmbulzi (beat a path, crowd, mob, overcrowd, pack, throng), se imprima, stoarce (crush, drain, exhaust, express, extort, extort from, fleece, force, milk, pinch, screw, soak, squeeze, swindle, twist, wring), strânge (accrete, accumulate, acerbate, acquire, agglomerate, amass, assemble, bind, call, chuck, clamp, clasp, clear, clench, close, collect, compress, concentrate, congregate, constrain, constrict, contract, converge, convolve, cramp, crop, crouch, crowd, crush, cull, cut, diminish, double, fasten, fold, force, garner, gather, glean, harvest, haul, hoard, house, hug, jam, lay aside, lay by, lay in, lay up, levy, lock, lump, make up, mass, muster, nip, pack, pick, pick up, pile, pile on, pinch, put away, put by, rake together, rake up, rally, reap, screw, shrink, shut, squeeze, stifle, stock, store, straighten, strain, straiten, suffocate, take up, tighten, troop, warehouse), strãpunge prin presare, tipar (model, Mold, mould, paradigm, pattern, printing, shape, typography), turti (cave, flatten, Pat), zemui, grabã (cursoriness, dispatch, expedition, forwardness, haste, hastiness, hurry, pelt, quickness, rapture, readiness, rush, scamper, speed). (various references)

Russian 

напирать (emphasize), давка (cram, crowding, crush, jam, squeeze), печатный станок (printing press, printing-press), печать (cachet, impress, seal, signet, stamp), пресс (masher, mill, squeezer, wringer), пресса (the fourth estate), прессовать (squeeze), жим, жать (cut, harvest, mow, pinch, reap, strangle), давить (bear, crush, press upon, squash, trample, tread), надавливание, стеснять (cramp, embarrass, encumber, incommode, straiten, straitens), нажать, отутюжить (iron), вербовать силой, вербовка силой, выгладить (iron), типография (print shop, printing house, printing office, printing-house, printing-office), теснить (beset, narrow), разгладить (iron out, smooth out), спешка (flurry, haste, hurry, time pressure), надавить. (various references)

Scottish

plùch (squeeze), dinn (force down, prep.pron. off us, squeeze). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pritisnuti (depress, jam, push, step on), presovati (calender), presing, presa, stegnuti (clasp, clench, compress, constrict, tighten), sabiti (compress, condense, impact, pack), navaljivati (importune, insist), ispeglati (iron), štampa (imprint, print). (various references)

Spanish

prensa (press house, printing machine, printing press), apretar (bind, clasp, clench, clutch, constrain, constrict, cramp, fasten, grasp, grip, hug, oppress, pack down, pinch, press down, pull, purse, push, push down, quicken, ram, screw, snuggle, squeeze, subtend, tighten, tighten up, turn, turn on), satinar (satin), prensar (to press), oprimir (actuate, aggrieve, compress, grasp, grind, grind down, hold down, keep down, oppress, overburden, push, squeeze, suppress, to queeze). (various references)

Swedish

trycka (clasp, crush, force, oppress, opress, print, push, squeeze), press (crusher, oppression, pressure, squeezer), pressa (clentch, crush, drive, extend, hustle, iron, jam, push, rice, screw, squeeze, wring), klämma (clamp, clip, jam, pickle, pinch, scrape, shut, squash, squeeze), ansätta (afflict, badger, beset, harass, heckle, importune, obsess, persecute). (various references)

Turkish

preslemek (extrude, planish), pres ütü, pres (presser, pressure, squeezer), mengene (clamp, cramp, crampiron, crampon, crampoon, mill, vice, vise), acele (bustle, discomposedly, dispatch, early, expedition, fast, flying, haste, hastily, hasty, hotfoot, hurried, hurriedly, hurry, hurry up, in a hurry, in haste, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitate, pressing, quick, rapid, rush, speedy, swift, too previous, urgency, urgent, whirl), acil olmak, basın (fleet street, media, the press), basin, baskı (arm-twisting, coaction, coercion, compulsion, constraint, crackdown, crush, discipline, duress, edition, force, heat, impression, leverage, oppression, piezo-, press up, pressure, print, printing, repression, restraint, screw, squeeze, stress, suppression, the press, thrust, typographic, urgency), baskı yapmak (bear against, coerce, constrain, constrict, force, impress, keep down, lean on, oppress, press for, press-gang smb. into doing smth., pressure, pressurize, push, put leverage on smb., put the bite on smb., sit upon, squeeze, stress, subdue, tyrannize, urge, urge against, use force), basmak (affix, attack suddenly, break into, catch, come on, come upon, flood, flow, foray, impress, imprint, irrupt, jam, letter, print, publish, raid, sink, spit, spit out, stamp, stencil, step, step on, stomp, strike, strike off, transfer, tread, tread on, utter, weigh), cendere, izdiham (concourse, confluence, conflux, congestion, cram, crowd, jam, mob, multitude, squeeze, stampede, throng), ütülemek (iron), matbaa makinesi (printer, printing machine, printing press), zorlamak (be urgent with smb., bludgeon, bully, clamor down, clamour down, coerce, compel, constrain, cow smb. into, cozen, do violence to, drag in, drive, edge on, enforce, exact, force, impel, impose, impress, lean upon, obligate, outrage, press-gang smb. into doing smth., pressure, push, push smb. for, railroad, railroad into doing, stampede, strain, stretch, subdue, sweat, twist smb.'s arm, urge, worry, wrest), sıkışıklık (block, congestion, constriction, denseness, density, jam, squeeze, stringency), sıkıştırmak (astringe, be urgent with smb., bear against, besiege, bombard, bottle up, clamp, clamp down, clinch, come down on, compact, compress, constrict, crowd, crush, drive smb. to the wall, dun, force, grind, grip, heckle, hurry, hustle, impact, impress, incarcerate, jam, jam in, lean on, lean upon, oppress, pin, pin down, pinch, ply, ply with, press for, press smb. close, push, push smb. to the wall, rush, shut in, slip into, squeeze, straiten, stress, tighten, tuck, wedge, weigh), sıkacak (reamer, squeezer), sıkmak (ail, bore, bother, Chevy, chivvy, chivy, clench, constipate, constrict, crush, cumber, depress, distress, extrude, give the willies, grip, harass, hatchel, hold tight, incommode, irk, jam, load, make fast, mope, oppress, pinch, pressurize, pull on, ream, ream out, squeeze, straiten, strangulate, tighten), topluca ilerlemek (troop), zorla askere alma (levy), kalabalık (army, assemblage, cohort, concourse, congested, congestion, cram, crop, crowd, crowded, crush, drove, flock, gaggle, gathering, hive, horde, host, huddle, legion, mob, multitude, multitudinous, populous, regiment, rush hour, shoal, spate, squash, throng, thronged, wilderness). (various references)

Turkmen 

preslemek, sykmak (squeeze), яanamak (lean, oppress), gysmak (grip), basmak. (various references)

Ukrainian

видавлювати (gouge), давка (crowding, crush), друк (printing), друкарня (printery, printing house), поспіх (huddle, hurry, random), прасувати (iron), прес (mill, presser, wring), преса, жим, муляти (wring), надавлювання, наполягати (beat upon, instance, persist, push), натискання (impressment), давити (crush, nuddle, tread), натовп (bike, confluence, conflux, crowd, drove, flock, huddle, mob, multitude, rabble, throng), ставити печатку (rubber stamp, seal), вижимати (squeeze), відбиток (cachet, impress, impression, imprint, indenture, mintage, overprint, pressure, print, seal, trace, track), гладити (calender), книгодрукування, квапити (hasten, hie, rush, spank), штампувати (impress, manufacture, punch, rubber stamp), тиснути (clasp, nuddle, steamroller), тиск (distress, enforcement, plenum, pressure, weight), тіснити (throw back), реквізиція (confiscation, purveyance, requisition), реквізувати (commandeer, confiscate, embargo, requisition), утруднювати (trouble), натискувати. (various references)

Vietnamese 

thuật in, sự tất bật cuộc hỗn chiến, sự nén (reduction, subdual), sự in báo chí tủ đóng vào tường, sự hối hả (bustle, hurry), sự chen chúc, sự bóp (extraction), sự ấn sự đông đúc, sự ép (compression, crush, expression, reduction, squeeze), máy ép (compressor, shaper), đám đông xô lấn sự thúc ép, đám đông chen chúc. (various references)

Welsh

pwyso (lean, rely, rest, weigh), gwryf, gwasgu (crush, squeeze, wring), gwasg (bodice, waist), cymell (actuate, induce, persuade, urge). (various references)

Zulu

-phuthuma (hurry, urge), -jahe (hurry, urge). (various references)

angariaverit, angariaverunt, calcare, conglobati, conpresserit, conpresserunt, conprimaris, conprimebant, conprimentem, conprimerent, conprimit, conprimunt, conseres, conseretur, conservi, constipati, densabuntur, nisi, nisusque, nitebantur, nitebatur, nitens, nitentes, niteris, nitimini, nititur, nituntur, nixa, perurguebant, perurguebat, perurguente, perurguere, premas, premens, premere, premerent, premit, premunt, pressare, pressi, pressit, pressura, pressurae, pressuram, stipare, tribulabat, tribulabitur, tribulabo, tribulamini, tribulamur, tribulant, tribulantes, tribulantis, tribulantium, tribularentur, tribularer, tribulas, tribulasti, tribulato, tribulatus, tribulaverat, tribulaverunt, tribulavit, tribulor, urgeat, urget, urguebant, urguebantque, urguebat, urguerent, urgueret, urgues, ursi. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "press": pressboard, pressboards, pressed, presser, pressers, presses, pressing, pressingly, pressings, pressman, pressmark, pressmarks, pressmen, pressor, pressors, pressroom, pressrooms, pressrun, pressruns, pressure, pressured, pressureless, pressures, pressuring, pressurise, pressurised, pressurises, pressurising, pressurization, pressurizations, pressurize, pressurized, pressurizer, pressurizers, pressurizes, pressurizing, presswork, pressworks. (additional references)

Words ending with "press": antipress, clothespress, compress, cypress, decompress, depress, derepress, empress, express, handpress, hotpress, immunosuppress, impress, letterpress, oppress, outpress, overcompress, overimpress, reexpress, repress, superexpress, suppress, winepress. (additional references)

Words containing "press": acupressure, acupressures, antidepressant, antidepressants, antidepression, antidepressions, appressed, appressoria, appressorium, clothespresses, compressed, compressedly, compresses, compressibilities, compressibility, compressible, compressing, compression, compressional, compressions, compressive, compressively, compressor, compressors, corepressor, corepressors, counterpressure, counterpressures, cypresses, decompressed, decompresses, decompressing, decompression, decompressions, depressant, depressants, depressed, depresses, depressible, depressing, depressingly, depression, depressions, depressive, depressively, depressives, depressor, depressors, depressurization, depressurizations, depressurize. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Press" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: parss, Pdes, Peress, perqs, persa, persp, persu, pessi, Pessl, pless, Plessy, Porosz, Pras, prases, preces, prees, Preiss, prens, presa, prese, preses, presess, presh, presn, Presos, Pressa, pressn, pressy, Prests, presu, Pretsch, preuss, preust, prez, prezes, prezz, prezzy, Priesca, Priess, prises, priss, prorsus, proses, pross, prs, prses, prsi, Prsu, prus, Pruss, ress, ressg. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: reps, sers.

-2 letters: ers, ess, per, pes, rep, res, ser.

-3 letters: er, es, pe, re.

+1 letter: aspers, parses, passer, perses, pisser, posers, prases, prests, prises, proses, purses, repass, spares, sparse, spears, speers, speirs, sperms, spiers, spires, spores, sprees, sprues, streps, supers.

+2 letters: asperse, aspires, corpses, cypress, depress, empress, escarps, esprits, express, gaspers, impress, jaspers, lapsers, lispers, oppress, ospreys, pareses, paresis, parises, parsecs, parsers, passers, pasters, pausers, peeress, percuss, persist, persons, peruses, pessary, pesters, phrases, pissers, plessor, poisers, poseurs, posters, praises, precess, premiss, presets, pressed, presser, presses, pressor, prestos, priests, prissed, prisses, process, profess, prosers, prosses, prossie, prowess, pulsers, pursers, pursues, pushers, pussier, raspers, repasts, reposes, repress, reships, respots, sappers, sarapes, scrapes, secpars, serapes, seraphs, shapers, sherpas, simpers, sippers, slopers, snipers, soapers, spacers, spaders, sparers, sparest, sparges, sparser, spewers, spheres, spicers, spiders, spikers, spireas, spirems, splores, spreads, spriest, sprites, spruces, spryest, spurges, stirpes, stopers, stripes, suppers, suspire, syphers, uprises, vespers.