Usually means: Exert full force or pressure.
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  1. bear down: Merriam-Webster
  2. bear down: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bear down: Collins English Dictionary
  4. bear down: Vocabulary.com
  5. bear down: Wiktionary
  6. bear down: Dictionary.com
  7. Bear Down: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. bear down: Rhymezone
  9. bear down: FreeDictionary.org
  10. bear down: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. bear down: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. bear down: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. bear down: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bear down: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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  1. bear down: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bear down: Urban Dictionary

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  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  2. Bear Down, Bear Down: Latitude Mexico

Definitions from Wiktionary (bear down)

verb:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bear, down.
verb:  (nautical) To steer away from the wind; to approach from windward.
verb:  (transitive) To push (someone) to the ground; to defeat, overcome.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To maintain one's position against (someone) in a debate; to stand one's ground against.
verb:  (intransitive) To intensify one's efforts.
verb:  (intransitive, with on) To approach in a determined manner.
verb:  (intransitive) To exert downward pressure on one's abdomen, as in giving birth, forcing out feces, and some similar bodily maneuvers.

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