Other forms: pressurized, pressurizing, pressurizes
To pressurize is to raise the pressure inside, or to push somebody hard. Pressurize the cabin.
An aircraft cabin is pressurized to about the air at eight thousand feet, not to sea level. To pressurize a person is the same word borrowed, and it is never meant kindly.
1verbpressurizeTo raise the pressure inside, or to push somebody hard.
“They pressurized him into signing the same afternoon.”
pressurize is an action.
Also accepted in games: pressurise
Latin
pressūra
English
pressure
English, today
pressurize
From pressure + -ize. pressure comes from Latin pressūra. Latin pressūra.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA