keep down   (TTS Sound)

The verb keep down has 3 senses

• number, keep down -- (place a limit on the number of)


• repress, quash, keep down, subdue, subjugate, reduce -- (put down by force or intimidation; "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land")


• keep down -- (manage not to throw up)