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clamp down on
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clamp down on
asphyxiate, beat down, bottle up, break, browbeat, bulldoze, bully, castrate, censor, choke off, coerce, compel, cork, cork up, cow, crack down on, crush, damp down, daunt, despotize, domineer, domineer over, drown, enslave, extinguish, gag, grind, grind down, henpeck, hold down, intimidate, jump on, keep down, keep under, kill, lord it over, muzzle, oppress, overawe, overbear, overmaster, override, pour water on, press heavy on, put down, quash, quell, quench, repress, ride over, ride roughshod over, shut down on, silence, sit down on, sit on, smash, smother, squash, squelch, stanch, stifle, strangle, stultify, subdue, subjugate, suffocate, suppress, terrorize, throttle, trample down, trample upon, tread down, tread upon, tyrannize, tyrannize over, unman, walk all over, walk over, weigh heavy onFor further exploring for "clamp down on" in Webster Dictionary Online