- crackdown - severely repressive actions
--1 is a kind of suppression, crushing, quelling, stifling
Derived form: verb crack down1
- clamp down, crack down - repress or suppress (something regarded as undesirable); "The police clamped down on illegal drugs"
--1 is one way to restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, bound, confine, throttle
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun crackdown1
Somebody ----s something