Bear Down

Definition: Bear Down

Bear Down

Verb

1. Exert a force with a heavy weight; "The snow bore down on the roof".

2. To make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle: "he saw Jess charging at him with a pitchfork.".

3. Contract the abdominal muscles during childbirth to ease delivery.

4. Exert full strength, as in baseball: "The pitcher bore down".

5. Pay special attention to: "The lectures bore down on the political background".

6. Exert a force or cause a strain upon; "This tax bears down on the lower middle class".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Bear Down

Attack

Strike at, poke at, thrust at; aim a blow at, deal a blow at; give one a blow, fetch one a blow, fetch one a kick, give one a kick; have a cut at, have a shot at, take a cut at, take a shot at, have a fling at, have a shy at; be down upon, pounce upon; fall foul of, pitch into, launch out against; bait, slap on the face; make a thrust at, make a pass at, make a set at, make a dead set at; bear down upon.

Insolence

Domineer, bully, dictate, hector; lord it over; traiter de haut en bas, regarder de haut en bas; exact; snub, huff., beard, fly in the face of; put to the blush; bear down, beat down; browbeat, intimidate; trample down, tread down, trample under foot; dragoon, ride roughshod over.

Violence

Verb: be -violent; Adjective: run high; ferment, effervesce; romp, rampage, go on a rampage; run wild, run amuck, run riot; break the peace; rush, tear; rush headlong, rush foremost; raise a storm, make a riot; rough house; riot, storm; wreak, bear down, ride roughshod, out Herod, Herod; spread like wildfire.

Crosswords: Bear Down

I cannot bear to see a bear bear down upon a hare. When bare of hair he strips the hare, right there I cry, "Forbear! (references; author: unknown)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Beardown: The University of Arizona Intercollegiate Sports--A Photographic Chronicle: Go, Go Wildcats, Go!: Arizona Bear Down! (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "bear down": bear down on ♦ bear down upon ♦ To bear down ♦ To bear down upon. Additional references.

Afrikaans

afstewen (make). (various references)

Albanian

turrem mbi, peshoj mbi. (various references)

Arabic 

‏هزم (beat, best, checkmate, clobber, defeat, dish, dump, finish, floor, foil, go down, hold down, knock off, knock out, lick, outdo, outvote, overcome, overpower, pip, sink, skunk, smash, stop, thrash, vanquish, vote down, whip, wipe out, wipe the floor with smb.), ‏صد (alienation, baffle, balk, baulk, beat, beat off, blast, estop, estoppel, exclusion, fend, fend off, fight off, hit, hit back, hold off, jolt, kick, negative, parry, poach, push, push aside, push back, quash, rebuff, repel, repudiate, repulse, repulsion, return, riposte, snub, spurn, stamp down, stave, stay, stay away, stem, throwback, toss, turn away, ward, ward off). (various references)

Bulgarian 

упражнявам натиск, преодолявам (break through, fight, get over, hurdle, live down, master, negotiate, overcome, overmaster, overpass, overpower, override, overrule, pass over, prevail, ride out, surmount, vanquish, win through). (various references)

Czech

porazit (beat, best, butcher, chop down, conquer, cut down, defeat, fell, hack down, hew, hew down, kill, knock down, overthrow, overturn, run down, smite, stick, strike down, stump, tumble, vanquish). (various references)

Dutch

stevenen (make), koersen (make), afstevenen (make). (various references)

Esperanto

direkti sin (make). (various references)

French

battre (beat, best), vaincre (beat), pousser. (various references)

German

sich nahen, niederdrücken (depress, flatten, get down, oppress, press, press down, push, to oppress), herabstoßen (pounce, swoop). (various references)

Greek 

καταβάλλω (debilitate, defeat, defray, exert, overbear, overcome, overpower, overwhelm, quash, quell, subdue, vanquish), φέρω κάτω. (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"�"וף (beat off, blast, fend off, fight off, hold off, jolt, push, repel, repulse, shove, stave off, ward off). (various references)

Hungarian

legyõz (conquer, defeat, down, get the best of, get the better of, master, outmatch, overcome, overmatch, overplay, overpower, overrule, overtake, overturn, rout, subject, tide over, vanquish, worst), lecsap (pounce, smite, to converge, to pounce, to precipitate, to souse, to swoop, to visit). (various references)

Italian

premere (be of interest, bear down on, depress, matter, oppress, press, pull, push, squeeze). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

息張る (to bear down, to strain). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いきばる (to bear down, to strain). (various references)

Manx

seiy (agitate, churn, churning, foment, fomentation, gore, gore of bull, knife, litter, lunge, mix up, mixing, mixture, muddy; pushing, prod, propel, propulsion, protrusion, push, shove, shoving, stab, stick, stir, stir up, thrust, tilt, tilting, transfix), lhie er (incumbency, resting on), dy heet lesh y noid, dy gholl lesh y noid. (various references)

Pig Latin

earbay ownday

Portuguese

vencer (clear away, defeat, lick, outdo, outrival, overcome, overmatch, overpass, overpower, subdue, subjugate, surmount, triumph, vanquish, whop, win), superar (beat, better, cap, clear away, cope with, defeat, exceed, outgrow, outrival, overcome, overmatch, paragon, ride out, surmount, surpass, vanquish). (various references)

Romanian

umili (abase, abash, humble, humiliate, mortify, snub, stoop, submit, take down), reduce (abate, abridge, ax, axe, bring, cancel out, contract, curtail, cut, decrease, derogate, detract, diminish, discount, draw in, drop, extenuate, fine down, knock down, knock off, lessen, lower, make good, narrow down, pare down, prune, recover, reduce, retrench, slacken, stint, stop, unbend, weaken), înfrânge (beat down, best, break, curb, defeat, foil, knock, master, overcome, overmatch, overpower, pip, stifle, vanquish, worsen, worst). (various references)

Russian 

сломить, преодолевать (break out of, cope, get over, get round, overcame, overcome, surmount). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pobediti (beat, carry the day, conquer, lick, outfight, vanquish, win, win out), nadvladati (overpower, slay). (various references)

Spanish

vencer (beat, beat down, best, break, break down, carry, conquer, defeat, discomfit, expire, fall due on, fall in, get over, get the best of, get the better of, master, outface, overcome, overpower, tear, win), ejercer presión sobre (nobble, press), derrotar (beat, defeat, destroy, rout, whip). (various references)

Swedish

störta sig över. (various references)

Turkish

yenmek (annihilate, bear the bell, beat, beat all hollow, best, break, carry away the bell, checkmate, circumvent, clobber, confound, conquer, cut out, defeat, discomfit, down, floor, get the better of, give a beating, knock out, land, lick, master, outbox, outclass, outdo, outgo, overpower, pip, prevail, skunk, slam, smash, subjugate, surmount, swamp, thrash, trim, triumph, trounce, vanquish, wallop, wear down, whelm, whip, whop, win over, wipe the floor with smb., worst), kırmak (blight, breach, break, break down, bust, chill, chop, crack, cut, dampen, discount, fracture, freeze, give offence, give offense, hurt, lacerate, offend, outrage, pique, put off, put smb.'s nose out of joint, quench, reduce, refract, Rive, ruffle smb.'s feelings, rupture, set up, shatter, skip, snap, snap off, split, stave in, sting, touch, vanquish). (various references)

Ukrainian

зламати (break down, bring down, bust), подолати (cope, cope with, outdo, overbear, overcome, overpower, overwhelm, whop). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: rawboned.

-1 letter: bandore, broaden, browned.

-2 letters: bander, bonder, borane, browed, downer, onward, redowa, roband, wander, warden, warned, wonder.

-3 letters: abode, adobe, adore, adorn, adown, anode, ardeb, awned, baned, barde, bared, baron, beano, beard, board, boned, boner, bored, borne, bowed, bower, brand, brawn, bread, broad, brown, dawen, debar, denar, dewan, dewar, dobra, dower, drawn, drone, drown.

+1 letter: breakdown.

+2 letters: breakdowns.

+3 letters: becowarding, snowboarder.

+4 letters: snowboarders.