Usually means: Maintain at a low level.
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  1. keep down: Merriam-Webster
  2. keep down: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. keep down: Collins English Dictionary
  4. keep down: Vocabulary.com
  5. keep down: Wiktionary
  6. keep down: Dictionary.com
  7. keep down: Rhymezone
  8. Keep Down: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  9. keep down: FreeDictionary.org
  10. keep down: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. keep down: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. keep down: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. keep down: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. keep down: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. keep down: Medical dictionary

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  1. keep down: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (keep down)

verb:  (transitive) To repress.
verb:  (transitive) To restrain or control (a sound).
verb:  (transitive) To cause not to increase or rise.
verb:  (transitive) To retain in the stomach without vomiting.
verb:  (intransitive) To lie low; to stay concealed by not standing up.
verb:  (obsolete, printing) To refrain from using capital letters more than absolutely necessary.

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