MEANING
To raise or maintain the pressure within a space or container, often above the surrounding pressure.
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Words that belong together
- pressurize a cabin
- pressurized chamber
On the page
The crew pressurized the cabin before opening their visors.
A valve admitted gas to pressurize the test chamber.
Opposite meanings
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Word forms
- Base
- pressurize
- Past tense
- pressurized
- Past participle
- pressurized
- Present participle
- pressurizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- pressurize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are pressurizing
- Present perfect
- have/has pressurized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been pressurizing
- Past
- pressurized
- Past continuous
- was/were pressurizing
- Past perfect
- had pressurized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been pressurizing
- Future
- will pressurize
- Future continuous
- will be pressurizing
- Future perfect
- will have pressurized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been pressurizing
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Usage notes
Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: pressurize; pressurizes; pressurized; pressurized; pressurizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: pressurizes.
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