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1. Place a limit on the number of
   - number
    
2. Put down by force or intimidation
   "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently";
   - repress, quash, subdue, subjugate, reduce
    
3. Manage not to throw up

Derived forms: keeps down, kept down, keeping down

See also: maintain

Type of: circumscribe, confine to, crush, limit, oppress, suppress

Encyclopedia: Keep down