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to hold someone firmly on the ground or on a surface so that they cannot move
He pinned me down on the bed and tickled me.
to understand or describe something exactly
Officials are trying to pin down the cause of widespread power outages.
to force someone to make a decision about something
We finally pinned him down and got him to agree to a meeting.
to keep soldiers in a place so that they cannot move
The Allied armies had been pinned down by the Germans.
