Definition of "pressurize" [pressurize]

• To maintain normal air pressure in (an enclosure, as an aircraft or submarine). (verb-transitive)
• To put (gas or liquid) under a greater than normal pressure. (verb-transitive)
• To design to resist pressure. (verb-transitive)
• To pressure-cook. (verb-transitive)
• Informal To subject to excessive stress, strain, or vexation: an executive who was pressurized by a heavy workload. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Yet, I wonder how the administration is able to "pressurize" powerful corporate media, which are financially independent of government subsidies."
• "What may emerge from such dialogue is to pressurize the political parties to give adequate representation to the people belonging to different faith and nurture leaders from different faiths n their organization."
• "Totalitarian dogma is the correct phrase because to pressurize world governments and organizations to spend billions, and disrupt whole communities, because an elite dictates that it can prove the climate of the future by manipulation of data, and by claiming that mankind is to blame for a future global castastrophe using fear as a weapon, is nothing less than the hijacking of science for political goals."