repressure

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English

Etymology

From 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, “Gas Dispute Runs Deeper Than Pipes, Experts Say”, in New York Times:
      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