turn up the pressure

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Verb turn up the pressure has 1 sense

turn up the heat, turn up the pressure - apply great or increased pressure; "The Democrats turned up the heat on their candidate to concede the election"
--₁ is one way to coerce, hale, squeeze, pressure, force
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