keeps down
Prevents from rising
Keeps down means to prevent from rising or increasing.
You keep down costs, keep down weeds, keep down noise.
To keep someone down is to oppress or limit their advancement: The system was designed to keep poor people down.
To keep food down is to avoid vomiting it: She couldn't keep anything down after the surgery.
- restrictTo impose limits upon
- suppressForcibly put an end to
- regulateControl by rules
- dampenWet slightly or diminish
- stifleSuppress or restrain
quell · calm · soothe · subdue · tether · confine · hold in check · govern · inhibit · subjugate · rein in · anchor · mute · enforce · curb · temper · hold back · pacify