keeping down
Preventing from rising
Keeping down means preventing something from rising or increasing: They're keeping down costs.
It can mean suppressing a group or population: policies aimed at keeping the poor down.
With food, keeping it down means not vomiting: She couldn't keep anything down.
To keep your head down is to avoid attention or trouble.
- silencingStopping noise or dissent
- restrictionLimit on action
- oppressionUnjust exercise of power
- inhibitionMental check on behavior
- smotheringDepriving of air
subjugation · stomaching · immunosuppression · stifling · curbing · moderation · quelling · homeostasis · ecological balance · containment · regulation · constraint · pacification · subduing · pest management · holding back · wage suppression · population control
- suppressionrepression, inhibition, restraint, silencing, muzzling
keeping downlifting
Raising something heavy
elevating · hoisting · propping up · holding up · raising
keeping downreleasing
Allowing to escape
letting go · freeing · unleashing · liberating · setting free
keeping downempowering
Giving authority or confidence
uplifting · elevating · advancing · promoting · liberating
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