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holding downverbpresent participle of hold down to set bounds or an upper limit forefforts to hold down taxes keep running up against the legislature's ingrained unwillingness to cut spending capping, circumscribing, confining, limiting, restricting barring, blocking, hampering, hindering, impeding, obstructingconstricting, contracting, lessening, narrowing, pinching, squeezing, tighteningquelling, repressing, suppressingnumberingmodifying, qualifying exceeding broadening, expanding, wideningoverextending, overreaching |