Bear down on brother with boat we built (8)
I believe the answer is:
browbeat
'bear down on' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with communicating as well as being verbs in their base form.
Maybe they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'brother with boat we built' is the wordplay.
'brother' becomes 'br' (abbreviation in titles of monks).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'built' is an anagram indicator (the same letters can be used to build the answer).
'boat'+'we'='boatwe'
'boatwe' anagrammed gives 'owbeat'.
'br'+'owbeat'='BROWBEAT'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for browbeat that I've seen before include "Bully verbally" , "Hector" , "Intimidate with words" , "Threaten - bully" , "Bully or intimidate - using forehead?" .)