crackdown

Noun

Meaning

severely repressive actions

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

enforcement raid persecution suppression repression oppression onslaught quelling induration crack down repressor clampdown subdual

Hypernyms

suppression crushing stifling quelling

Phrases with the word

above crackdown implementer of a government's crackdown

Examples

A ban on gatherings of more than eight people has been extended to June 4, the day of an annual candlelight vigil to mark the Chinese military’s 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. Source: Internet

After the Kansas City boy was killed in June by a gunshot meant for somebody else, the Trump administration launched a nationwide crackdown on violent crime named in his honor. Source: Internet

After surging to become the world's largest automotive market, sales fell last year for the first time since the 1990s amid a slowing economy, US trade tensions, and a Chinese credit crackdown that has crimped car-financing channels. Source: Internet

After a joint NATO-Serb crackdown on Albanian guerrillas in Kosovo, European Union (EU) officials were able to negotiate a cease-fire in June. Source: Internet

After the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989, many of the young leaders of those protests fled to the US and to Taiwan — where they largely remain. Source: Internet

Although Kantian self-governance appears to involve "a rational crackdown on appetites and emotions" with lack of harmony between reason and emotion, Kantian virtue denies requiring "self-conquest, self-suppression, or self-silencing". Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

crackbrain crackbrained crackbrainedness cracke cracked cracked as an egg