Word Meanings - BESETTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Habitually attacking, harassing, or pressing upon or about; as, a besetting sin.
Related words: (words related to BESETTING)
- 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.