premebat

premebat is a Latin form of premo, meaning “press, squeeze; oppress”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 37 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 97: … ivit? fac audisse statim; quae res eum nocte una tantum itineris contendere coegit? quae necessitas eum tanta premebat ut, si sua sponte iter Ameriam faceret, id temporis Roma proficisceretur, nullam partem noctis requiesceret?

Petronius, Satyricon 131: … s silvestris aedon atque urbana Procne, quae circum gramina fusae ac molles violas cantu sua furta colebant ” Premebat illa resoluta marmoreis cervicibus aureum torum myrtoque florenti quietum . . . verberabat. Itaque ut me vidi …

All forms of premo (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.