preasse

Verb

press (third-person singular simple present presses, present participle pressing, simple past and past participle pressed or prest)

1. (ambitransitive) To exert weight or force against, to act upon with force or weight; to exert pressure upon.
2. (transitive) To activate a button or key by exerting a downward or forward force on it, and then releasing it.

   Synonyms:

   strike, hit, depress

3. (transitive) To compress, squeeze.
   • to press fruit for the purpose of extracting the juice

   Synonyms:

   thring, thrutch, astringe, compact, telescope, compactify, condense, densitize, pack, mash

4. (transitive) To clasp, hold in an embrace.
   • With tears and ſmiles ſhe took her ſon, and preſs'd / Th' illuſtrious infant to her fragrant breaſt.a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “The Last Parting of Hector and Andromache. From the Sixth Book of the Iliad.”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume IV, London: […] J[acob] and...

   Synonyms:

   hug

5. (transitive) To reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smooth.
   • to press cloth with a clothes-iron
6. (transitive) To flatten a selected area of fabric using an iron with an up-and-down, not sliding, motion, so as to avoid disturbing adjacent areas.

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