keep under

verb

To hold in subjection; hence, to oppress.

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Meanings

verbkeep under (third-person singular simple present keeps under, present participle keeping under, simple past and past participle kept under)

present singular third person keeps under · participle present keeping under · participle past kept under · past kept under

  1. transitiveTo hold in subjection; hence, to oppress.

    In many places the local contingents of the army of “three million beggars” were regarded simply as animals to be kept under and exploited […]

    1956, Carlile Aylmer Macartney, October Fifteenth: A History of Modern Hungary, 1929–1945, volume 1, page 68
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