Synonyms for crack down
crack down

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1. clamp down, crack downverb

   repress or suppress (something regarded as undesirable)

   "The police clamped down on illegal drugs"

   Synonyms:
   clamp down

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1. Joshua Wong:

   Obviously, the police have their own political agenda, which is to crack down on activists like us.

2. Hua Jingfeng:

   Some foreign countries see our nation as an enormous market, and we have investigated a series of cases, a fair number of neighbouring countries have casinos, and they have set up offices in China to attract and drum up interest from Chinese citizens to go abroad and gamble. This will also be an area that we will crack down on.

3. Jeffrey Butts:

   The far left and the far right are actually pitching the same story, the right is saying this is America, and you should be able to have a gun to protect yourself, and the far left is saying when you crack down on gun possession you create racial disparity in cities where it is a criminal offense to have a gun.

4. Soner Cagaptay:

   Erdogan has all odds stacked in his favor. From ... economic growth to the state of emergency which he has been using to crack down on opposition, to a near complete control of the media.

5. Mohamed Nabil:

   We are not calling for a protest, just for people to stay home, and they still crack down on us. This shows how weak and scared this regime is.