bear down

— phrasal verb with bear

/beər/ verb (past tense bore /bɔr, boʊr/, past participle borne /bɔrn, boʊrn/)

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› to put more effort into doing something: I knew I had to bear down hard in order to hit the ball.

(Definition of bear down from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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