All crack down synonyms

verb crack down

• dictate — If you dictate something, you say or read it aloud for someone else to write down.
• hound — Nautical. either of a pair of fore-and-aft members at the lower end of the head of a mast, for supporting the trestletrees, that support an upper mast at its heel. Compare cheek (def 12).
• whip — to beat with a strap, lash, rod, or the like, especially by way of punishment or chastisement; flog; thrash: Criminals used to be whipped for minor offenses.
• perform — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
• spur — a batch of newly made rag-paper sheets.
• compel — If a situation, a rule, or a person compels you to do something, they force you to do it.
• goad — a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.; prod.
• lash — an ocean-going vessel equipped with special cranes and holds for lifting and stowing cargo-carrying barges that can be sailed up inland waterways or into port facilities from offshore.
• effect — something that is produced by an agency or cause; result; consequence: Exposure to the sun had the effect of toughening his skin.
• demand — If one thing demands another, the first needs the second in order to happen or be dealt with successfully.
• press — to force into service, especially naval or military service; impress.
• discharge — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
• strain — to draw tight or taut, especially to the utmost tension; stretch to the full: to strain a rope.
• fulfill — to carry out, or bring to realization, as a prophecy or promise.
• stress — importance attached to a thing: to lay stress upon good manners. Synonyms: significance, meaning, emphasis, consequence; weight, value, worth.
• administrate — to manage or direct (the affairs of a business, institution, etc)
• strong-arm — using, involving, or threatening the use of physical force or violence to gain an objective: strong-arm methods.
• support — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
• incite — to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action: to incite a crowd to riot.
• control — Control of an organization, place, or system is the power to make all the important decisions about the way that it is run.
• fetter — a chain or shackle placed on the feet.
• chain — A chain consists of metal rings connected together in a line.
• direct — to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.
• harness — the combination of straps, bands, and other parts forming the working gear of a draft animal. Compare yoke1 (def 1).
• circumscribe — If someone's power or freedom is circumscribed, it is limited or restricted.
• check — Check is also a noun.
• muzzle — the mouth, or end for discharge, of the barrel of a gun, pistol, etc.
• debar — If you are debarred from doing something, you are prevented from doing it by a law or regulation.
• manacle — a shackle for the hand; handcuff.
• arrest — If the police arrest you, they take charge of you and take you to a police station, because they believe you may have committed a crime.
• impound — to shut up in a pound or other enclosure, as a stray animal.
• handicap — a race or other contest in which certain disadvantages or advantages of weight, distance, time, etc., are placed upon competitors to equalize their chances of winning.
• proscribe — to denounce or condemn (a thing) as dangerous or harmful; prohibit.
• imprison — to confine in or as if in a prison.
• stay — (of a ship) to change to the other tack.
• bridle — A bridle is a set of straps that is put around a horse's head and mouth so that the person riding or driving the horse can control it.
• gag — to introduce usually comic interpolations into (a script, an actor's part, or the like) (usually followed by up).
• hold — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• cool — Something that is cool has a temperature which is low but not very low.
• delimit — If you delimit something, you fix or establish its limits.
• bind — If something binds people together, it makes them feel as if they are all part of the same group or have something in common.
• keep — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
• jail — a prison, especially one for the detention of persons awaiting trial or convicted of minor offenses.
• contain — If something such as a box, bag, room, or place contains things, those things are inside it.
• guide — to assist (a person) to travel through, or reach a destination in, an unfamiliar area, as by accompanying or giving directions to the person: He guided us through the forest.
• cork — Cork is a soft, light substance which forms the bark of a type of Mediterranean tree.
• pinion — the distal or terminal segment of the wing of a bird consisting of the carpus, metacarpus, and phalanges.
• asphyxiate — If someone is asphyxiated, they die or lose consciousness because they are unable to breathe properly.
• stultify — to make, or cause to appear, foolish or ridiculous.
• muffle — to wrap with something to deaden or prevent sound: to muffle drums.