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bear down

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bear down (on someone or something)
to press down on someone or something. Bear down on the pen. You have to make a lot of copies. Don't bear down too hard or you'll break it.
See also: bear

bear down (on somebody/something)
1. to use all your effort to do something Our students will have to bear down if they want to pass their exams.
2. to push or press on something When washing your car, try not to bear down too hard or you'll take off the paint.
3. to move toward someone or something in a threatening way Another storm is bearing down on northern California. The car gathered speed and bore down on him, so he jumped into the ditch.
See also: bear


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But worse still: that he may bear down every argument in favor of these poems, he triumphantly drags forward a passage, in his abomination with which he expects the reader to sympathize.
``I cannot guess,'' answered De Bracy, ``nor did I think there had been within the four seas that girth Britain a champion that could bear down these five knights in one day's jousting.
Like the sword of Coeur De Lion, which always blazed in the front and thickest of the battle, Sam's palm-leaf was to be seen everywhere when there was the least danger that a horse could be caught; there he would bear down full tilt, shouting, "Now for it
 
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