CRACK DOWN as VERB

1. Meaning
   • repress or suppress (something regarded as undesirable)
   Synonym(s)
   • clamp down (what does clamp down mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • The police clamped down on illegal drugs
   Hypernyms(s) crack down is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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   Derived(s)
   • crackdown (what does crackdown mean?)
   • clampdown (what does clampdown mean?)