bear down upon

1. 1.

   sail towards another vessel, of a ship

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What does bear down upon mean?

bear down upon means "sail towards another vessel, of a ship".

What is another word for bear down upon?

Close synonyms include bear down on. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bear down upon a common word?

bear down upon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.