keep down

Questions about keep down

What does keep down mean?

keep down means "place a limit on the number of". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for keep down?

Close synonyms include number, repress, quash, subdue, subjugate. 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.

What is the opposite of keep down?

The recorded antonyms are vomit.

Is keep down a common word?

keep down is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.