crushing pressure
Unbearable compressive weight
Crushing pressure is force so intense it threatens to compress or destroy what it bears down on.
The phrase describes physical extremes—the crushing pressure of deep ocean depths or industrial machinery—but more often appears figuratively for overwhelming psychological or social demands: The crushing pressure of debt kept him awake at night, She cracked under the crushing pressure of expectations.
- weightMeasure of heaviness
- dead weightInert, burdensome mass
- forceStrength or compulsion
- squeezeFirm bilateral compression
- iron gripExtremely tight grasp
vice grip · bear hug · strain · burden · under the gun · high stakes · suffocating · overwhelming · compressing · grinding · heavy · unbearable · tonnage · vice · smothering · relentless · collapse · caving in
- deep seaabyss, seabed, ocean floor, ocean depths, seafloor
- deep oceanChallenger Deep, Mariana Trench, ocean trench, trench, ocean floor
crushing pressuregentle touch
no pressure · weightlessness · light pressure · soft touch · vacuum
crushing pressureexpansion
Increase in scope
decompression · buoyancy · suspension · flotation · negative pressure
crushing pressureweightlessness
Absence of apparent mass
liberation · ease · peace of mind · lightness · relaxation
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