bear down on
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3094·updated Jun 3, 2026verified
to sail towards another vessel, of a ship
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Classifications
Cognitive
Apply72%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Responsibility
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Automation
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Variants
- synonym
- bear down upondrag down
- pasttense
- beared down on
- presentparticiple
- bearing down on
- thirdpersonsingular
- bears down on
- pastparticiple
- beared down on
Framework definitions
- §1
- to exert a force with a heavy weight
- §2
- to sail towards another vessel, of a ship
- §1 · legacy_primary
- to sail towards another vessel, of a shipDR-088 backfill from the verb definition column
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