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Bear down on

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Verb
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    exert a force with a heavy weight wordnet
  3. 3
    sail towards another vessel, of a ship wordnet

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