pressurize

Other forms of pressurize

past tense

pressurized·

present participle

pressurizing·

third person

pressurizes·

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 pressurize

What does pressurize mean?

pressurize 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 pressurize?

pressurize has 3 syllables: pres-su-rize. The stress falls on "pres". In IPA it is /ˈpɹɛʃɚˌaɪz/.

What is another word for pressurize?

Close synonyms include supercharge, pressurise, pressurise, pressurise. 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 pressurize?

The recorded antonyms are depressurize.

Is pressurize a common word?

pressurize 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.

What rhymes with pressurize?

34 words rhyme with pressurize. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.