1. pressed - Adjective
2. pressed - Verb
4. pressed - Adjective Satellite
of Press
Source: Webster's dictionaryPressed into service means pressed out of shape. Robert Frost
When irrational terror takes to itself the fiat of moral goodness somebody has to die. ... No man lives who has not got a panic button, and when it is pressed by the clean white hand of moral duty, a certain murderous train is set in motion. Arthur Miller
I pressed down the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea. P. G. Wodehouse
One volunteer is worth two pressed men. English Proverb
A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men. Italian Proverb
Much pressed is he who fain on the hearth would seek for warmth and weal. Norse Proverb