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Word Meanings - BESETTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Habitually attacking, harassing, or pressing upon or about; as, a besetting sin.

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  • HARASS
    To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens or anxieties; -- sometimes followed by out. harassed with a long and wearisome march. Bacon. Nature
  • ABOUT
    On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)
  • PRESSIROSTRAL
    Of or pertaining to the pressirosters.
  • PRESSIVE
    Pressing; urgent; also, oppressive; as, pressive taxation. Bp. Hall.
  • PRESSGANG
    See PRESS
  • PRESSURAGE
    1. Pressure. 2. The juice of the grape extracted by the press; also, a fee paid for the use of a wine press.
  • PRESSURE WIRES
    Wires leading from various points of an electric system to a central station, where a voltmeter indicates the potential of the system at those points.
  • PRESSWORK
    The art of printing from the surface of type, plates, or engravings in relief, by means of a press; the work so done. MacKellar.
  • PRESSLY
    Closely; concisely.
  • ATTACK
    1. To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault. "Attack their lines." Dryden. 2. To assail with unfriendly speech or writing; to begin a controversy with; to attempt to overthrow or bring into disrepute, by criticism
  • BESETTING
    Habitually attacking, harassing, or pressing upon or about; as, a besetting sin.
  • PRESSOR
    Causing, or giving rise to, pressure or to an increase of pressure; as, pressor nerve fibers, stimulation of which excites the vasomotor center, thus causing a stronger contraction of the arteries and consequently an increase of the arterial blood
  • PRESSIROSTER
    One of a tribe of wading birds including those which have a compressed beak, as the plovers.
  • PRESS REVISE
    A proof for final revision.
  • PRESSURE
    The action of a force against some obstacle or opposing force; a force in the nature of a thrust, distributed over a surface, often estimated with reference to the upon a unit's area. Atmospheric pressure, Center of pressure, etc. See
  • PRESSITANT
    Gravitating; heavy. Dr. H. More.
  • HARASSER
    One who harasses.
  • BESETTER
    One who, or that which, besets.
  • PRESSBOARD
    A kind of highly sized rag paper or board, sometimes containing a small admixture of wood pulp; -- so called because used originally, as now, in presses for pressing and finishing knit underwear.
  • HOTPRESSED
    Pressed while heat is applied. See Hotpress, v. t.
  • ROUNDABOUTNESS
    The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
  • HOTPRESS
    To apply to, in conjunction with mechanical pressure, for the purpose of giving a smooth and glosay surface, or to express oil, etc.; as, to hotpress paper, linen, etc.
  • SUPPRESSOR
    One who suppresses.
  • INCOMPRESSIBLE
    Not compressible; incapable of being reduced by force or pressure into a smaller compass or volume; resisting compression; as, many liquids and solids appear to be almost incompressible. -- In`com*press"i*ble*ness, n.
  • INSUPPRESSIBLE
    That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv.
  • REPRESSIBLE
    Capable of being repressed.
  • ESPRESSIVO
    With expression.
  • INEXPRESSIBLY
    In an inexpressible manner or degree; unspeakably; unutterably. Spectator.
  • IMPRESS
    To take by force for public service; as, to impress sailors or money. The second five thousand pounds impressed for the service of the sick and wounded prisoners. Evelyn. (more info) pref. im- in, on + premere to press. See Press to squeeze, and
  • INTROPRESSION
    Pressure acting within.
  • REIMPRESS
    To impress anew.
  • OPPRESSION
    1. The act of oppressing, or state of being oppressed. 2. That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny. "The multitude of oppressions." Job xxxv. 9. 3. A sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind;
  • INSUPPRESSIVE
    Insuppressible. "The insuppressive mettle of our spirits." Shak.
  • COMPRESSIVE
    Compressing, or having power or tendency to compress; as, a compressive force.

 

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