"press down" meaning in English

{
  "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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      "expansion": "press down (third-person singular simple present presses down, present participle pressing down, simple past and past participle pressed down)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see press, down."
      ],
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      "links": [
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        ],
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          "down",
          "down#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Chitra Ramaswamy, Homelands: The History of a Friendship, Canongate Books",
          "text": "Time is pressing down on us, fastening each moment to the railroad of our lives.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To exert an oppressive influence."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "oppressive",
          "oppressive"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, figuratively) To exert an oppressive influence."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
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          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (down)",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To press or push, especially for a long time."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
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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"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see press, down."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
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        ],
        [
          "down",
          "down#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Chitra Ramaswamy, Homelands: The History of a Friendship, Canongate Books",
          "text": "Time is pressing down on us, fastening each moment to the railroad of our lives.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To exert an oppressive influence."
      ],
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        [
          "oppressive",
          "oppressive"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, figuratively) To exert an oppressive influence."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To press or push, especially for a long time."
      ],
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        [
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        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "press down"
}