bear down on
Verb
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Verb
bear down on
- To approach someone in a very determined way.
- I could see the headmaster bearing down on me, and looked hopelessly round for a means of escape.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IV
- We were moving slowly up the river as the creature bore down upon us with distended jaws. The long neck was far outstretched, and the four flippers with which it swam were working with powerful strokes, carrying it forward at a rapid pace.
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