What does press down on mean?

press down on means "exert a force with a heavy weight".

What is another word for press down on?

Close synonyms include drag down, bear down, bear down on, weigh down. 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 press down on a common word?

press down on 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.

Press down on — meaning, 4 synonyms and examples

verb

1 senseAn action, occurrence or state of being.

1.
exert a force with a heavy weight
“The snow bore down on the roof”
Synonymsdrag down bear down bear down on weigh down
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What does press down on mean?: press down on means "exert a force with a heavy weight".
What is another word for press down on?

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