crack down

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Noun crack down has 1 sense

crackdown - severely repressive actions
--₁ is a kind of suppression, crushing, quelling, stifling

Derived form: verb crack down₁

Verb crack down has 1 sense

clamp down, crack down - repress or suppress (something regarded as undesirable); "The police clamped down on illegal drugs"
--₁ is one way to restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, bound, confine, throttle

Derived form: noun crackdown₁
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

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