🍋 To squeeze out 🧩 To form by pressing 🚬 To put out

to press out

1 5.3

To shape plastic by pushing soft material into a mold

phrasal verb
/prɛs aʊt/

Specialized

: dar forma

After mixing the ingredients, she used a mold to press out the perfect shape for each pastry.

Examples

Press out...

The Shack (2017)
To make cookies, roll the dough flat and press out shapes using a cookie cutter.
The artisan carefully presses out the clay into intricate designs for her pottery.

Synonyms

to press

vsto press out

534 1.0

Use force on something with your hand or a tool to flatten it

forces softened material into a cavity to form specific objects, not general force

to stamp

vsto press out

40 2.2

To press a design or letters into something with a tool

shapes whole items by forcing material into a cavity, not only marking surfaces

to mold

vsto press out

35 3.2

To shape something by hand or in a container

forces softened material into a cavity or die to form objects

Antonyms

to dismantle

64 4.2

Take something apart into separate pieces

How Forceful

to ram down

1 7.1

to force out

6 4.2

to squeeze out

Specialized

4.0

to extrude

Specialized

5 7.6

to press out

Specialized

1 5.3

Surface Forms

press out infinitive

pressed out past

pressed out past participle

pressing out present participle

presses out third person singular

Morphology

press + out

The meaning 'to extinguish by crushing' is directly inferable from 'press' (apply pressure) combined with the particle 'out' (indicating cessation or removal of the burning state); a B1 learner who knows both words can reasonably infer pressing something until it is 'out'. This follows common verb+particle composition patterns in English (e.g., 'put out') and is thus predictably compositional rather than idiomatic.

Etymology

Press out comes from factory work where a machine presses hot material into a mold so the piece is pushed out in the right shape. So, it means 'to shape or form something by pressing material into a mold'.