bear down upon

Questions about bear down upon

What is another word for bear down upon?

It depends which bear down upon you mean. In the sense “sail towards another vessel, of a ship”, the synonyms are bear down on. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of bear down upon?

WordNet records no antonym for bear down upon. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for bear down upon come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of bear down upon

• Full entry for bear down uponAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for bear down uponWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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