pressurise

Other forms of pressurise

past tense

pressurised·

present participle

pressurising·

third person

pressurises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pressurise

What does pressurise mean?

pressurise means "increase the pressure on a gas or liquid". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pressurise?

pressurise has 3 syllables: pres-su-rise. The stress falls on "pres".

What is another word for pressurise?

Close synonyms include supercharge, pressurize, pressurize, pressurize. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of pressurise?

The recorded antonyms are depressurise.

Is pressurise a common word?

pressurise is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.