1. Place a limit on the number of
   "The university keeps down enrolment to maintain quality";
   - 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
   "Despite feeling nauseous, she kept down her breakfast"

Derived forms: keeps down, kept down, keeping down

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

Encyclopedia: Keep down