"press down" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "presses down",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pressing down",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pressed down",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pressed down",
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        "past"
      ]
    }
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    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "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.",
          "ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 6:38:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1896 July 9, William Jennings Bryan, Cross of Gold speech:",
          "text": "You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see press, down."
      ],
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    },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014 May 9, Mary Beard, “A Point of View: The paradox of growing old”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 2022-09-22:",
          "text": "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\".",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Chitra Ramaswamy, Homelands: The History of a Friendship, Canongate Books, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Time is pressing down on us, fastening each moment to the railroad of our lives.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To exert an oppressive influence."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, figuratively) To exert an oppressive influence."
      ],
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        "intransitive"
      ]
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      "glosses": [
        "To press or push, especially for a long time."
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  "word": "press down"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "presses down",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pressing down",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pressed down",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pressed down",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "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.",
          "ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 6:38:",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1896 July 9, William Jennings Bryan, Cross of Gold speech:",
          "text": "You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see press, down."
      ],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014 May 9, Mary Beard, “A Point of View: The paradox of growing old”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 2022-09-22:",
          "text": "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\".",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Chitra Ramaswamy, Homelands: The History of a Friendship, Canongate Books, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Time is pressing down on us, fastening each moment to the railroad of our lives.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To exert an oppressive influence."
      ],
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          "oppressive"
        ]
      ],
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        "(intransitive, figuratively) To exert an oppressive influence."
      ],
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        "figuratively",
        "intransitive"
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    },
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      "glosses": [
        "To press or push, especially for a long time."
      ],
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