Keep down and Number

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Keep down verb - Place a limit on the number of.

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Number is a synonym for keep down. In some cases you can use "Number" instead a verb "Keep down".

Number verb - Place a limit on the number of.

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Keep down is a synonym for number. You can use "Keep down" instead a verb "Number".

Nearby Words: numberless, numbered, numbering

Also referred to in Making Money, where Moist explains that the mongooses were bred in the postboxes, to keep down the snakes; who were introduced to reduce the number of toads; which were put there to keep down the snails.

Source: Summon Bigger Fish

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