Definitions for pressor

pressor pres·sor

Spelling: [pres-er]
IPA: /ˈprɛs ər/

Pressor is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 120 anagrams from letters in pressor (eoprrss).

Definitions for pressor

adjective

  1. causing an increase in blood pressure; causing vasoconstriction.

Origin of pressor

1885-90; attributive use of Late Latin pressor presser, equivalent to Latin *pret-, variant stem of premere to press1 + -tor -tor,

Examples for pressor

When we fired rockets at them, they turned them back with tractor and pressor beams.

Tractor and pressor beams were known to men, of course, but human beings used them only under very special conditions.

Along that pressor beam there crept a dull rod of energy, which surrounded the fugitive shell and brought it slowly to a halt.

They have to aim something—a pressor or tractor beam, most likely—and pick off each rocket separately.

It had no beam-projectors except small-sized objects which were—which must be—their projectors of tractor and pressor beams.

Along that pressor beam there crept a dull red rod of energy, which surrounded the fugitive shell and brought it slowly to a halt.

Word Value for pressor
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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