Word.ws English Dictionary

bore down on

bore down on is the simple past of bear down on.

Meaning of bear down on

Verb

bear down on (third-person singular simple present bears down on, present participle bearing down on, simple past bore down on, past participle borne down on)

  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.

Questions about bore down on

What is bore down on the simple past of?
Bore down on is the simple past of bear down on.

Words near bore down on in the dictionary

  1. bore against
  2. bore away
  3. bore away the bell
  4. bore date
  5. bore down
  6. bore down on
  7. bore draw
  8. bore draws
  9. bore fruit
  10. bore in
  11. bore in mind

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bore down on (page history and authors); bear down on (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “bore down on.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bore_down_on. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.