PRESSED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pressed mean? 

• PRESSED (adjective)
  The adjective PRESSED has 1 sense:

1. compacted by ironing

  Familiarity information: PRESSED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRESSED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Compacted by ironing

Similar:

ironed ((of linens or clothes) smoothed with a hot iron)

 Context examples 

Then, she took the Doctor's hand (he was sitting in the same attitude as when we had entered the room), and pressed it to her breast, and kissed it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The snow walls pressed him on every side, and a great surge of fear swept through him—the fear of the wild thing for the trap.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

She pressed my hand earnestly and let me go.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

We pressed on the door, the rusty hinges creaked, and it slowly opened.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I pressed my lips to his once brilliant and now rayless eyes—I swept his hair from his brow, and kissed that too.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

You have no idea how he pressed me.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

He was alone, and met her instantly; and she found herself pressed to his heart with only these words, just articulate, “My Fanny, my only sister; my only comfort now!”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Remained only the trampled snow to show how closely they had pressed him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

His footmarks had pressed right through the snow, so long had he stood there.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Oh dear, but it was brave to see you! she cried, bursting out a-laughing once more, and standing with her hand pressed to her side, and her half-closed eyes twinkling with amusement.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)