turn up the pressure

1. 1.

   apply great or increased pressure

   “The Democrats turned up the heat on their candidate to concede the election”

   Synonymsturn up the heat

   Broadercoerce

Questions about turn up the pressure

What does turn up the pressure mean?

turn up the pressure means "apply great or increased pressure".

What is another word for turn up the pressure?

Close synonyms include turn up the heat. 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.

Is turn up the pressure a common word?

turn up the pressure 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.