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• keep down — keep from progressing or growing, keep within limits, control The students were told to keep down the noise as some of the other classes were having exams …   Idioms and examples

• keep down — index extinguish, repress, strangle, subject, suppress Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

• keep down — verb 1. place a limit on the number of (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑number • Derivationally related forms: ↑number (for: ↑number) • Hypernyms: ↑limit, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• keep down — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms keep down : present tense I/you/we/they keep down he/she/it keeps down present participle keeping down past tense kept down past participle kept down 1) to control something and prevent it from increasing in… …   English dictionary

• keep down — {v.} Keep from progressing or growing; keep within limits; control. * /The children could not keep their voices down./ * /We hoe the garden to keep down the weeds./ * /You can t keep a good man down./ Compare: GET AHEAD …   Dictionary of American idioms

• keep down — {v.} Keep from progressing or growing; keep within limits; control. * /The children could not keep their voices down./ * /We hoe the garden to keep down the weeds./ * /You can t keep a good man down./ Compare: GET AHEAD …   Dictionary of American idioms

• keep\ down — v Keep from progressing or growing; keep within limits; control. The children could not keep their voices down. We hoe the garden to keep down the weeds. You can t keep a good man down. Compare: get ahead …   Словарь американских идиом

• keep down — phr verb Keep down is used with these nouns as the object: ↑cost, ↑inflation, ↑level, ↑tax, ↑wage, ↑weed, ↑weight …   Collocations dictionary

• keep down — 1) PHRASAL VERB If you keep the number, size, or amount of something down, you do not let it get bigger or go higher. [V n P] The prime aim is to keep inflation down... [V P n (not pron)] Administration costs were kept down to just ₤460. 2)… …   English dictionary

• keep down — Synonyms and related words: asphyxiate, beat down, bottle up, break, browbeat, bulldoze, bully, castrate, censor, choke off, clamp down on, coerce, compel, cork, cork up, cow, crack down on, crush, damp down, daunt, deprive of freedom, despotize …   Moby Thesaurus

• keep down — transitive verb Date: 1548 1. to keep in control < keep expenses down > 2. to prevent from growing, advancing, or succeeding …   New Collegiate Dictionary