beat down

So why would stakeholders in our healthcare system not be beating down the doors to make these drugs more widely available?

The August sun, formerly a welcome source of warmth, now beat down mercilessly.

The late afternoon summer sun beat down from a clear blue sky, as this small town in Pennsylvania prepared for its biggest spectacle in years.

I think that in and of itself is unsettling because you want to see evil just kind of beat down and be done with by the time the curtain goes down.

"I didn't even want to see a pool again. I had been beaten down again and again and again."