press

Usage

• suppress

  When something is suppressed, it is blocked from occurring or kept contained in some way.

• impress

  When you impress someone, you do something so well that they think it’s really good and praise you for it.

• depress

  Something that depresses someone makes them sad and disappointed with life; they often don’t want to do anything because of it.

• express

  When you express your thoughts or feelings about something, you talk or write about them.

• compress

  make more compact by or as if by pressing

• compression

  an increase in the density of something

• depression

  a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity

• expressive

  characterized by expression

• expressly

  with specific intentions

• impression

  a vague idea in which some confidence is placed

• impressionable

  easily impressed or influenced

• inexpressible

  defying expression

• irrepressible

  impossible to repress or control

• oppressive

  weighing heavily on the senses or spirit

• pressure

  to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"

• pressurize

  increase the pressure on a gas or liquid

• repress

  put down by force or intimidation

• repressiveness

  the state of putting limits upon something using force

• suppression

  the failure to develop some part or organ

• unimpressive

  not capable of impressing