to force someone to make a decision about something
to hold someone firmly on the ground or on a surface so that they cannot move
to keep soldiers in a place so that they cannot move
to understand or describe something exactly
He pinned me down on the bed and tickled me.
I had seen Gifty with other men and I had noticed something about those men that I couldn't pin down.
Officials are trying to pin down the cause of widespread power cuts.
Removing the plans from their protective cover, he spread them across the bed; several bulky UNACO files were used to pin down the edges.
The Allied armies had been pinned down by the Germans.
The only thing I was now sure of, after a morning of study, was my ability to pin down Dechavanne over his project.
We finally pinned him down and got him to agree to a meeting.
Would you agree to some tests to pin down the cause of infertility?
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There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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