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beats down
vb. (en-third-person singularbeat down)
Usage examples of "beats down".
Immediately, the line of police vanishes, as if melted in the bright spring sun that beats down on the plaza.
The hot late-summer sun beats down on Lorn, and the sweat oozes from every pore, soaking the brown tunic he wears for training.
The moonlight beats down and throughout the town you can see uneasy faces in windows and you can hear dogs howling -though what they bay at isn't the white eye of the moon but the incessant forms of the prowling vigilantes, bleached yet black in the eerie wash of illumination.