Crossword-Solution: PRESS 5 letters, 422 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Press	n.	An East Indian insectivore (Tupaia ferruginea). It is arboreal in its habits, and has a bushy tail. The fur is soft, and varies from rusty red to maroon and to brownish black.
Press	n.	To force into service, particularly into naval service; to impress.
Press	n.	A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
Press	v.	To urge, or act upon, with force, as weight; to act upon by pushing or thrusting, in distinction from pulling; to crowd or compel by a gradual and continued exertion; to bear upon; to squeeze; to compress; as, we press the ground with the feet when we walk; we press the couch on which we repose; we press substances with the hands, fingers, or arms; we are pressed in a crowd.
Press	v.	To squeeze, in order to extract the juice or contents of; to squeeze out, or express, from something.
Press	v.	To squeeze in or with suitable instruments or apparatus, in order to compact, make dense, or smooth; as, to press cotton bales, paper, etc.; to smooth by ironing; as, to press clothes.
Press	v.	To embrace closely; to hug.
Press	v.	To oppress; to bear hard upon.
Press	v.	To straiten; to distress; as, to be pressed with want or hunger.
Press	v.	To exercise very powerful or irresistible influence upon or over; to constrain; to force; to compel.
Press	v.	To try to force (something upon some one); to urge or inculcate with earnestness or importunity; to enforce; as, to press divine truth on an audience.
Press	v.	To drive with violence; to hurry; to urge on; to ply hard; as, to press a horse in a race.
Press	v. i.	To exert pressure; to bear heavily; to push, crowd, or urge with steady force.
Press	v. i.	To move on with urging and crowding; to make one's way with violence or effort; to bear onward forcibly; to crowd; to throng; to encroach.
Press	v. i.	To urge with vehemence or importunity; to exert a strong or compelling influence; as, an argument presses upon the judgment.
Press	n.	An apparatus or machine by which any substance or body is pressed, squeezed, stamped, or shaped, or by which an impression of a body is taken; sometimes, the place or building containing a press or presses.
Press	n.	Specifically, a printing press.
Press	n.	The art or business of printing and publishing; hence, printed publications, taken collectively, more especially newspapers or the persons employed in writing for them; as, a free press is a blessing, a licentious press is a curse.
Press	n.	An upright case or closet for the safe keeping of articles; as, a clothes press.
Press	n.	The act of pressing or thronging forward.
Press	n.	Urgent demands of business or affairs; urgency; as, a press of engagements.
Press	n.	A multitude of individuals crowded together; / crowd of single things; a throng.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
PRESS	anagram	ESSPR, RESPS, SPRES

We have 422 clues for the answer “PRESS”

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"... or ___ 1 for more options"	1 answer
"... or ___ one for more options"	1 answer
"Full court" NBA defense	1 answer
"Full court" tactic	1 answer
"Meet the ___"	1 answer
"The Globe and Mail" and "National Post", e.g.	1 answer
35 Across, with "The"	1 answer
A medium	1 answer
Activate, as an elevator button	1 answer
Aggressive defense in basketball	1 answer
Apply force to	1 answer
Ask repeatedly	1 answer
Automated telephone menu command	1 answer
Backcourt defense	1 answer
Bane of public figures	1 answer
Basketball defensive tactic	1 answer
Basketball stratagem	1 answer
Be very persistent	1 answer
Bench __: exercise	1 answer
Bench ___ (gym equipment)	1 answer
Bench ___ (gym exercise)	1 answer
Bench activity	1 answer
Bench lift	1 answer
Book maker, of a sort	1 answer
Box or agent	1 answer
Briefing room bunch	1 answer
Buchanan's co-host	1 answer
Button action	1 answer
Button verb	1 answer
Cider maker	1 answer
Cider mill fixture	1 answer
Cider-making machine	1 answer
Cider-making tool	1 answer
Clear clothes lines, in a way	1 answer
Conference attendees, maybe	1 answer
Consensus of editorial opinion.	1 answer
Critical comment of newspapers.	1 answer
Crowd (papers)	1 answer
Crowd or throng.	1 answer
Crush, as a garlic clove	1 answer
Cylinder or rotary	1 answer
Defense on a court	1 answer
Defensive basketball tactic	1 answer
Defensive hoops tactic	1 answer
Defensive strategy in basketball	1 answer
Deltoid-working exercise	1 answer
Demand haste.	1 answer
Directive in some automated messages	1 answer
Do ironing	1 answer
Do some ironing	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ERETA

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with PRESS (5)

These fables, again, were among the books brought into an extended circulation by the agency of the printing press.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

She could still take some comfort in the world if she had bacon in the cave, glass jars on the shelves, and sheets in the press.

O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

She did not adjust her hat, or pat her hair, or press a dimple into shape, or do one thing to signify that any such intention had been her motive in taking up the glass.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Storr, BA Formerly Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge From the Loeb Library Edition Originally published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA and William Heinemann Ltd, London First published in 1912 ARGUMENT To Laius, King of Thebes, an oracle foretold that the child born to him by his queen Jocasta would slay his father and wed his mother.

The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000

Meanwhile, the press had taken up my affair, and kept me for a week or two careering through the public prints, in my decapitated state, like Irving’s Headless Horseman, ghastly and grim, and longing to be buried, as a political dead man ought.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

Quotes with PRESS (3)

Promise Yourself To be so strong that nothingcan disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, happiness, and prosperityto every person you meet. To make all your friends feelthat there is something in them To look at the sunny side of everythingand make your optimism come true. To think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best. To be just as enthusiastic about the success of othersas you are about your own. To forget the mistakes of the pastand pre…

Christian D. Larson Your Forces and How to Use Them

I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are you going to do with me?' I turn into him. 'Put you somewhere you can't get hurt.

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something special in them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only the best, be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you hav…

Norman Vincent Peale

Where this answer appears

Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 440 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).