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borne down on

borne down on is the past participle 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 borne down on

What is borne down on the past participle of?
Borne down on is the past participle of bear down on.

Words near borne down on in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: borne 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.

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