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bear down on1Move directly towards someone or something in a purposeful or intimidating manner: at a canter they bore down on the mass of men ahead...- He felt Mrs Yin had first braked unnecessarily in front of him and when he tried to overtake she accelerated, forcing him to drop back because the car coming in the opposite direction was bearing down on him.
- It's richly mounted, solidly acted, tautly directed - and bears down on you with a vengeance, just like that red-eyed hound from hell.
- Villa's offside trap had initially broken down to allow Henry to bear down on the Villa goal and after he cut back inside Ronnie Johnsen, he clipped his shot against the inside of the post.
Synonyms advance on, close in on, move in on, converge on, approach, come/move closer/close to, draw near/nearer to, press on towards; attack, set upon, fall upon, assail, set about, let fly at, tear into 1.1Take strict measures to deal with: a commitment to bear down on inflation...- This support was not just for the benefits that membership would bring in bearing down on inflation, but also for the fiscal discipline and wider advantages it would bring, particularly for business.
- The purpose of the operation is to bear down on what we believe to be concentrations of insurgents and their equipment.
- This scheme appears to contradict the commitment to bear down on night noise.
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