Antonyms for clamp downclamp down

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1. clamp down, crack downverb

   repress or suppress (something regarded as undesirable)

   "The police clamped down on illegal drugs"

   Synonyms:
   crack down

How to use clamp down in a sentence?

1. Alex Joske:

   China has been looking to clamp down on democracy efforts. This is a clear message against those efforts.

2. Nicholas Holt:

   We believe there needs to be more attention paid to this, there needs to be more efforts to clamp down on the bad faith trademarks.

3. Col Robert Lee Maginnis:

   It is the proverbial camel's nose under the tent.Expect much worse denial of freedom to follow.This is especially true as evidenced by the Kremlin's recent decision to clamp down on anti-war protesters.

4. James Jacobs:

   I’m skeptical on the ability to clamp down on guns. That horse has already left the stable, most people who are highly dangerous don’t go to a legal gun dealer. They go on the internet or the black market or just get someone else to buy a gun for them.

5. Steven Howard:

   The thing begins to fire, and it begins to jump and buck all over the place, your first human instinct is for your hands to clamp down, and you clamp down on the trigger, and if the thing has a 32-round magazine ... it starts spraying all over and people get killed.

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