pressurer
French, verb/pʁe.sy.ʁe/
pressurer is spelled P-R-E-S-S-U-R-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written French, the 142,934th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pressurer is a French verb meaning “to squeeze” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Presser des raisins ou d’autres fruits et en tirer le jus par le moyen du pressoir”.
What does pressurer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to squeeze
- 2
to extort
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Presser des raisins ou d’autres fruits et en tirer le jus par le moyen du pressoir. 2. Exploiter le travail d’autrui, épuiser par des impôts, par des taxes. 3. Tirer de quelque chose tout ce qui peut en être utilisé. 4. Accabler.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of pressurer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- pressurant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- pressuré participle past
- pressure first-person indicative present
- pressures indicative present second-person
- pressurons first-person indicative plural
- pressurez indicative plural present
- pressurent indicative plural present
- pressurais first-person imperfect indicative
- pressurait imperfect indicative singular
- pressurions first-person imperfect indicative
- pressuriez imperfect indicative plural
- pressuraient imperfect indicative plural
- pressurai first-person historic indicative
- pressuras historic indicative past
- pressura historic indicative past
- pressurâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pressurer?
- /pʁe.sy.ʁe/
- \pʁe.sy.ʁe\
- \pʁɛ.sy.ʁe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pressurer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pressurer in French?
pressurer appears about once in every 19 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).