transitive. To press, squeeze, crush; to crowd, throng; figurative to oppress.

transitive. To press, compress, or grasp tightly; to squeeze; to clasp tightly. Obsolete.

transitive. To press, compress, squeeze. Obsolete (except in spec. reference to cheese-making: cf. thrusting, n. 2, thrusting-screw n.,thrusting-tub…

transitive. To extract by pressure; to express; to squeeze (liquid, juice, etc.) from or out of something.

To press together, to squeeze. separate things.

To press, squeeze; to crush; = thrust, v. 4.

transitive. To apply pressure to; to push, press, squeeze. Also intransitive. Cf. birze, v. 2. Scottish in later use.

transitive. To press, compress, squeeze; to crowd or heap together.

transitive. To squeeze, in various senses.

transitive. To squeeze or crush.

transitive. To squeeze.

transitive. To press or compress hard, esp. so as to flatten, crush, or force together.

To force, strain, or press hard as by the use of a vice; to fix, jam, or squeeze tightly.

transitive. To squeeze, to squash. Now dialect and colloquial.

Frequently with adverb or prepositional phrase. transitive. To apply pressure to; to push, press, squeeze.

transitive. To compress; to squeeze.

To press close to each other, or to a surface, e.g. leaves to the stem; = adpress, v.

To squeeze; to squelch or to mix roughly; to press together, so as to make a sucking noise. Also intransitive. dialect and colloquial.

transitive. Originally U.S. To press (a button or key); to operate or switch on (a device) by so doing.

transitive. Originally U.S. To press or squeeze (something), esp. forcefully; to stub out or extinguish (a cigarette or cigar); to step on (the…