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vb. (en-simple pastbear down)
Usage examples of "bore down".
Clay bore down on it and was about two hundred yards away when the canopy of the other vehicle popped open and a sheet of automatic weapons fire raked the patrol car.
She bore down again, at the same time as he thrust up from beneath her.
Wainwright was hovering anxiously in the vicinity, and she now bore down rapidly upon the pair.
Life, in the crisis that wrecked his self-esteem, bore down upon him with a brutal rush.
And while they were thus engrossed with the sport, a galliot of Paganino da Mare, a very famous corsair of those days, hove in sight and bore down upon the boats, and, for all the speed they made, came up with that in which were the ladies.
As the breezes sport with the chaff upon some goodly threshing-floor, when men are winnowing- while yellow Ceres blows with the wind to sift the chaff from the grain, and the chaff- heaps grow whiter and whiter- even so did the Achaeans whiten in the dust which the horses' hoofs raised to the firmament of heaven, as their drivers turned them back to battle, and they bore down with might upon the foe.
Squaring her yards, she bore down, ranged abeam under the Pequod's lee, and lowered a boat.
I lifted Bill out of the chair, slung him over my shoulder, and ran, adrenaline-stoked again, but his weight bore down and I could barely breathe and after ten steps I was on the verge of collapse.
They were doing their best to reach the city, but he would not Yet them, and bore down on them between the river and the ships and wall.