crack down

1. 1.

   repress or suppress (something regarded as undesirable)

   “The police clamped down on illegal drugs”

   Synonymsclamp down

   Broaderrestrict

Questions about crack down

What does crack down mean?

crack down means "repress or suppress (something regarded as undesirable)".

What is another word for crack down?

Close synonyms include clamp down. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crack down a common word?

crack down is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.