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Meanings of pin down in English

Spanish
clavar

Define clearly.

        clavar
        Catalan
        subjectar
        Spanish
        prender

        Attach with or as if with a pin.

              subjectar
              Portuguese
              aprisionar
              Spanish
              atrapar

              Place in a confining or embarrassing position.

                    aprisionar
                    Usage of pin down in English
                    1
                    Exactly why Green wants to do this is difficult to pin down.
                    Wired
                    2
                    Review:It is never an easy one to pin down, this Oxegen lark.
                    The Irish Times
                    3
                    Perhaps, it was the fact that he was harder to pin down.
                    The Irish Times
                    4
                    It was hard to pin down the exact reason for Footsie's rise.
                    The Irish Times
                    5
                    He smiled at me, with not quite enough nastiness to pin down.
                    Nothing in her way
                    6
                    She doesn't seem to have been an easy person to pin down.
                    A fugitive truth: an emma fielding mystery
                    7
                    There were probably several misses, but I could only pin down one.
                    The Guardian
                    8
                    France's nuclear lobby is hard to pin down because it is intricate.
                    Reuters
                    9
                    Someone else was lurking about: a sneaky fellow hard to pin down.
                    Dancer’s Lament
                    10
                    It is likely to be very faint and hard to pin down.
                    The South African
                    11
                    The meeting with Lucinda had been a dream hard to pin down.
                    Kennedy's brain
                    12
                    This makes transactions harder to track, and perpetrators harder to pin down.
                    The South African
                    13
                    He says post punk as a genre is hard to pin down.
                    Radio NZ
                    14
                    What's more, the facts here were proving mighty hard to pin down.
                    The devil's bones: a body farm novel
                    15
                    Perhaps that's why he is such a hard man to pin down.
                    The Irish Times
                    16
                    It was hard to pin down her location in such psychic chaos.
                    Songs of love and death: all-original tales of star-crossed love
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                    Translations for pin down
                    Catalan
                    subjectar
                    Portuguese
                    aprisionar
                    Pin down through the time
                    Pin down across language varieties
                    Ireland
                    Common
                    New Zealand
                    Common
                    United States of America
                    Common
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