Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun crackdown

1 sense of crackdown

Sense 1
crackdown -- (severely repressive actions)
       => suppression, crushing, quelling, stifling -- (forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority; "the suppression of heresy"; "the quelling of the rebellion"; "the stifling of all dissent")