Pressure and Sic

Pressure

Pressure verb - To cause (a person) to give in to pressure.

Sic and pressure are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sic" instead a verb "Pressure".

Sic

Sic verb - To take sudden, violent action against.

Pressure and sic are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Pressure" instead a verb "Sic".

Both words in one sentence

  • You Are Worth Hell At the end of the 1988 movie Miracle Mile, as Harry and Julie sink into the tar pits amid a nuclear holocaust he might have escaped if he hadn't gone back to save her, she suggests that maybe they'll be "metamorphosized" (sic) into diamonds by the heat and pressure.
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