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PRESS DOWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does press down mean? 

PRESS DOWN (verb)
  The verb PRESS DOWN has 1 sense:

1. press downplay

  Familiarity information: PRESS DOWN used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PRESS DOWN (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Press down

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

depress; press down

Context example:

Depress the space key

Hypernyms (to "press down" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something


 Context examples 


She hung on, striving to press down with her teeth to the great vein where his life-blood bubbled.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Golbasto Momarem Evlame Gurdilo Shefin Mully Ully Gue, most mighty Emperor of Lilliput, delight and terror of the universe, whose dominions extend five thousand blustrugs (about twelve miles in circumference) to the extremities of the globe; monarch of all monarchs, taller than the sons of men; whose feet press down to the centre, and whose head strikes against the sun; at whose nod the princes of the earth shake their knees; pleasant as the spring, comfortable as the summer, fruitful as autumn, dreadful as winter: his most sublime majesty proposes to the man-mountain, lately arrived at our celestial dominions, the following articles, which, by a solemn oath, he shall be obliged to perform:—

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)



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