Repressure
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To pressurize again; to restore to a given pressure
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From re- + pressure.
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