Crossword-Solution: PRESSOR
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pressor | a. | 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 pressure; -- opposed to depressor. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PRESSOR | anagram | PROSERS |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PRESSOR (5)
Along that pressor beam there crept a dull rod of energy, which surrounded the fugitive shell and brought it slowly to a halt.
There seven dully gleaming red pressor rays leaped upon it, backed by all the power of seven gigantic fortresses, held rigidly in formation by the unimaginable mass of the structures and by their twenty-one prodigious tractor beams.
Bombs, torpedoes, and all material projectiles were equally futile--they exploded harmlessly in the air far from their objectives, or disappeared at the touch of one of those dark, dull-red pressor rays.
The heptagons, massive and solidly braced as they were, and anchored by tractor rays as well, shuddered and trembled throughout their mighty frames under the impact of fiercely driven pressor beams.
They have to aim something--a pressor or tractor beam, most likely--and pick off each rocket separately.
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Appears in: USA TODAY.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2015).