Scrabble & Words with friends points
- press is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 7
- press is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 7
- press is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 8
Definition of press
- a dense crowd of people (noun)
Synonyms
- crush
- jam
- to be oppressive or burdensome (verb)
Examples
- Something pressed on his mind
Synonyms
- weigh
- the print media responsible for gathering and publishing news in the form of newspapers or magazines (noun)
Synonyms
- public press
- the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure (noun)
Examples
- he gave the button a press
- he used pressure to stop the bleeding
- at the pressing of a button
Synonyms
- pressing
- pressure
- make strenuous pushing movements during birth to expel the baby (verb)
Synonyms
- push
- the state of demanding notice or attention (noun)
Examples
- the press of business matters
Synonyms
- imperativeness
- insistence
- insistency
- pressure
- a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes (noun)
Synonyms
- closet
- wardrobe
- a machine used for printing (noun)
Synonyms
- printing press
- lift weights (verb)
Examples
- This guy can press 300 pounds
Synonyms
- weight-lift
- weightlift
- force or impel in an indicated direction (verb)
Synonyms
- exhort
- urge
- urge on
- squeeze or press together (verb)
Examples
- she compressed her lips
Synonyms
- compact
- compress
- constrict
- contract
- squeeze
- a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then smoothly lifted overhead (noun)
Synonyms
- military press
- press and smooth with a heated iron (verb)
Examples
- press your shirts
Synonyms
- iron
- iron out
- exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for (verb)
Synonyms
- agitate
- campaign
- crusade
- fight
- push
- press from a plastic (verb)
Examples
- press a record
Synonyms
- press out
- any machine that exerts pressure to form or shape or cut materials or extract liquids or compress solids (noun)
Synonyms
- mechanical press
- ask for or request earnestly (verb)
Synonyms
- adjure
- beseech
- bid
- conjure
- entreat
- be urgent (verb)
Examples
- This is a pressing problem
- clamp to prevent wooden rackets from warping when not in use (noun)
- create by pressing (verb)
- crowd closely (verb)
Examples
- The crowds pressed along the street
- exert pressure or force to or upon (verb)
Examples
- He pressed down on the boards
- press your thumb on this spot
- place between two surfaces and apply weight or pressure (verb)
Examples
- pressed flowers
See definition of press in Merriam Webster