💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Keep down"
Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| repressverb | (transitive, by extension) To check; to keep back. |
| subdueverb | (transitive) To overcome, quieten, or bring under control. |
| quashverb | To defeat decisively, to suppress. |
| reduceverb | (transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower. |
| subjugateverb | To forcibly impose obedience, servitude, or submission upon (a country, a people, etc.). |
| numbernoun | Quantity. |
| refrainnoun | The chorus or burden of a song repeated at the end of each verse or stanza. |
| tamp downverb | (idiomatic, by extension) To suppress or reduce (something, usually an emotion or thought). |
| fight backverb | (intransitive) To defend oneself by fighting. |
| fight downverb | (transitive) To suppress (a feeling or emotion). |
| hold downverb | (idiomatic, transitive) To continue, to hold and to manage well; to keep; maintain; support. |
| stifleverb | (transitive, also figuratively) To make (an animal or person) unconscious or cause (an animal or person) to die by preventing breathing; to smother, to suffocate. |
| keep backverb | (transitive) To hold back; to refuse to give or share. |
| suppressverb | To put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue. |
| restrainverb | (transitive) To control or keep in check. |
| downpressverb | (transitive) To push or press downwards. |
| oppressverb | (transitive) To keep down by unjust force. |
| downverb | (comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards. |
| throttle downverb | To reduce power to (an engine), reduce speed |
| quieten downverb | (transitive, British) To make someone or something become quieter. |
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