Synonyms of pressuring

pressuring 1 of 2

noun

as in lobbying

Related Words

• lobbying
• prompting
• influencing
• swaying
• brainwashing
• persuading
• seduction
• tempting
• coaxing
• convincing
• wheedling
• overpersuasion
• inducing
• inducement
• entreaty
• cajolery
• urging
• exhortation
• conversion
• blandishment
• suasion
• cajolement
• persuasion

pressuring

2 of 2

verb

present participle of pressure

as in forcing

to cause (a person) to give in to pressure

his father pressured him to go out for the swim team

Synonyms & Similar Words

• forcing
• coercing
• compelling
• obligating
• obliging
• driving
• constraining
• blackmailing
• pressing
• muscling
• impressing
• impelling
• making
• dragooning
• sandbagging
• intimidating
• bullying
• threatening
• blackjacking
• browbeating
• cowing
• bulldozing
• dragging
• terrorizing
• badgering
• hectoring
• shaming
• twisting one's arm
• harassing
• hounding
• menacing
• high-pressuring

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• letting
• allowing
• permitting
• moving
• arguing
• talking (into)
• inducing
• satisfying
• winning (over)
• prevailing (on or upon)
• persuading
• convincing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of pressuring

Noun

The first drills Monday focused on rebounding, the next half-dozen on various aspects of their pressuring, helping, swarming, trapping defense. — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 July 2026

As the two wander around the museum—one pressuring, the other deflecting—the novel portrays their professed enmity as underscored by the force of attraction, even of love. — Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2026

Coercion and pressuring cannot solve problems. — Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025

There are similarities between the standoff playing out between the White House and the Fed, and President Richard Nixon’s pressuring of the central bank in the 1970s, according to Nomura. — Alex Harring, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2025

Verb

Today, however, several armed groups allied with Tehran are back to pressuring Iran’s foes by opening new fronts that complicate the war and threaten to choke the global economy. — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026

Trump had not supported a rate increase, instead pressuring the central bank to lower rates, which can lower borrowing costs but increase inflation. — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2026

Nearly seven in 10 US adults worry about politicians pressuring election officials to change results. — Morgan Chalfant, semafor.com, 30 July 2026

After a shaky 2025, Chipotle is successfully luring customers back — even with spiking gas prices and other higher costs pressuring dining budgets. — Amelia Lucas,laya Neelakandan, CNBC, 29 July 2026

The source noted that doing immigration enforcement at airports is a relatively straightforward way to boost arrest levels, at a time when the White House has been pressuring ICE to record 2,000 daily arrests. — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 29 July 2026

House Republicans have spent recent months pressuring the Senate to take up the SAVE America Act, as some House members have gone as far as to call out Thune on social media. — Lauren Green, The Washington Examiner, 24 July 2026

Landlords found other ways to circumvent the law, such as pressuring residents into making side payments and stalling paperwork. — Haley Parsley, Sacbee.com, 24 July 2026

Meanwhile, García was accused of pressuring Negrón to appoint the wife of the president of Politank — a powerful lobbying and government relations firm that Domenech founded — to Puerto Rico’s Office of Permit Management. — ABC News, 21 July 2026