pressed

Under strain or deprivation.

Adjective

  1. Under strain or deprivation.
    • The staff was even more pressed for useful intelligence about the enemy's intentions than it was about the enemy's capabilities.
    • He found himself hard pressed.
  2. Upset, bothered.
    • She did what she always does: laid out a trap, and the well-intended took the bait. Like clockwork. Why do we stay so pressed instead of just ignoring her? - 2020, Evan Ross Katz, “Why Did We Take the 'Harry Styles Wore...
  3. Recruited by a press gang.
    • The most obvious source for tracking pressed men is the muster books of the individual ships, for these encompass those impressed both afloat and ashore. Yet the muster books are notoriously uneven in quality as an...

Forms

more pressed most pressed

Derived

cold-pressed hardpressed hard-pressed hot-pressed nonpressed pressed duck pressed for time pressed glass pressed ham pressed rice repressed

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of press