Meaning of press down | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see press, down.
2. To exert an oppressive influence.
   figuratively, intransitive
3. To press or push, especially for a long time.

Examples

“Giue, and it shall bee giuen vnto you, good measure, preassed downe, and shaken together, and running ouer, shall men giue into your bosome: for with the same measure that ye mete withall, it shall bee measured to you againe.”

Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.

“You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.”

“Or, as the same poet goes on, "when awful old age pressed down upon him, she put him away in an inner room of the house and shut the shining doors".”

“Time is pressing down on us, fastening each moment to the railroad of our lives.”

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