All crack down synonyms

verb crack down

• urge — to push or force along; impel with force or vigor: to urge the cause along.
• oblige — to require or constrain, as by law, command, conscience, or force of necessity.
• necessitate — to make necessary or unavoidable: The breakdown of the car necessitated a change in our plans.
• impel — to drive or urge forward; press on; incite or constrain to action.
• constrain — To constrain someone or something means to limit their development or force them to behave in a particular way.
• prosecute — Law. to institute legal proceedings against (a person). to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process. to conduct criminal proceedings in court against.
• accomplish — If you accomplish something, you succeed in doing it.
• invoke — to call for with earnest desire; make supplication or pray for: to invoke God's mercy.
• require — to have need of; need: He requires medical care.
• impose — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
• administer — If someone administers something such as a country, the law, or a test, they take responsibility for organizing and supervising it.
• reinforce — to strengthen with some added piece, support, or material: to reinforce a wall.
• sanction — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
• apply — If you apply for something such as a job or membership of an organization, you write a letter or fill in a form in order to ask formally for it.
• implement — any article used in some activity, especially an instrument, tool, or utensil: agricultural implements.
• carry out — If you carry out a threat, task, or instruction, you do it or act according to it.
• hinder — to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
• prevent — to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
• inhibit — to restrain, hinder, arrest, or check (an action, impulse, etc.).
• confine — To confine something to a particular place or group means to prevent it from spreading beyond that place or group.
• detain — When people such as the police detain someone, they keep them in a place under their control.
• subdue — to conquer and bring into subjection: Rome subdued Gaul.
• suppress — to put an end to the activities of (a person, body of persons, etc.): to suppress the Communist and certain left-leaning parties.
• kill — to deprive of life in any manner; cause the death of; slay. Synonyms: slaughter, massacre, butcher; hang, electrocute, behead, guillotine, strangle, garrote; assassinate.
• deter — To deter someone from doing something means to make them not want to do it or continue doing it.
• restrict — to confine or keep within limits, as of space, action, choice, intensity, or quantity.
• curb — If you curb something, you control it and keep it within limits.
• hamper — to hold back; hinder; impede: A steady rain hampered the progress of the work.
• govern — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
• limit — the final, utmost, or furthest boundary or point as to extent, amount, continuance, procedure, etc.: the limit of his experience; the limit of vision.
• curtail — If you curtail something, you reduce or limit it.
• repress — to keep under control, check, or suppress (desires, feelings, actions, tears, etc.).
• keep down — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
• smother — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
• suffocate — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
• squelch — to strike or press with crushing force; crush down; squash.
• strangle — to kill by squeezing the throat in order to compress the windpipe and prevent the intake of air, as with the hands or a tightly drawn cord.
• silence — absence of any sound or noise; stillness.
• bulldoze — If people bulldoze something such as a building, they knock it down using a bulldozer.
• make — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
• drive — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
• coerce — If you coerce someone into doing something, you make them do it, although they do not want to.
• restrain — to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
• squeeze — to press forcibly together; compress.
• hustle — to proceed or work rapidly or energetically: to hustle about putting a house in order.
• dragoon — (especially formerly) a European cavalryman of a heavily armed troop.
• concuss — to injure (the brain) by a violent blow, fall, etc
• wrest — to twist or turn; pull, jerk, or force by a violent twist.
• commandeer — If the armed forces commandeer a vehicle or building owned by someone else, they officially take charge of it so that they can use it.
• fortify — to protect or strengthen against attack; surround or provide with defensive military works.