repressure

English

Etymology

re- +‎ pressure

Verb

repressure (third-person singular simple present repressures, present participle repressuring, simple past and past participle repressured)

  1. To pressurize again; to restore to a given pressure
    • 2009, January 14, “Andrew E. Kramer”, in Gas Dispute Runs Deeper Than Pipes, Experts Say‎:
      But rather than repressuring the Ukrainian pipeline system for exports, Russia's gas monopoly, Gazprom, ordered a single test shipment to see if it would pass through Ukraine to Europe, through a pipeline that was being used to supply the Ukrainian city of Odessa.

Latin

Participle

repressūre

  1. vocative masculine singular of repressūrus
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