Suppress
[sə'pres] or [sə'prɛs]
Definition
(verb.) to put down by force or authority; 'suppress a nascent uprising'; 'stamp down on littering'; 'conquer one's desires'.
(verb.) put out of one's consciousness.
(verb.) reduce the incidence or severity of or stop; 'suppress a yawn'; 'this drug can suppress the hemorrhage'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To overpower and crush; to subdue; to put down; to quell.
(v. t.) To keep in; to restrain from utterance or vent; as, to suppress the voice; to suppress a smile.
(v. t.) To retain without disclosure; to conceal; not to reveal; to prevent publication of; as, to suppress evidence; to suppress a pamphlet; to suppress the truth.
(v. t.) To stop; to restrain; to arrest the discharges of; as, to suppress a diarrhea, or a hemorrhage.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Crush, overpower, subdue, quell, overthrow, stifle, choke, smother, put down.[2]. Restrain, repress, keep back, stop, check.[3]. Conceal, keep secret, not tell, not reveal.
Typist: Moira
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Overpower, extinguish, repress, stifle, check, subdue, quell, era_h, destroy,restrain, conceal, hu_n, stop, smother
ANT:Raise, support, fan, excite, strengthen, incite, instigate, increase,aggravate, vent, publish, promulgate, spread, disseminate, intensify
Checker: Ronnie
Definition
v.t. to crush put down: to keep in: to retain or conceal: to stop restrain.—adv. Suppress′edly.—ns. Suppress′er Suppress′or.—adj. Suppress′ible.—ns. Suppres′sion act of suppressing: stoppage: concealment; Suppres′sionist one who supports suppression.—adj. Suppress′ive tending to suppress: subduing.
Editor: Percival
Examples
- Bois-Guilbert made an effort to suppress his rising scorn and indignation, the expression of which, he was well aware, would have little availed him. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- In the passion of their good intentions they have not hesitated to conceal facts, suppress thought, crush disturbing initiatives and apparently detrimental desires. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Constructive business has no end of reactionary moments----the most striking, perhaps, is when it buys up patents in order to suppress them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- On the contrary, it tends to suppress them, just because they are deviations from what is current. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- At the same time they tried to suppress this new method of warfare, and to that end made him another offer. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- She must tell you herself what she isyet not by word, for never was there a human creature who would so designedly suppress her own merit. Jane Austen. Emma.
- It encountered considerable hostility, and at last systematic attempts to suppress it. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Now, said a suppressed voice with an oath, I've got you! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Two Greek papers and one French one were suppressed here within a few days of each other. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- At the same time, a low whistle is wafted through the Inn and a suppressed voice cries, Hip! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- An explosion of a smouldering volcano long suppressed, was the result of an internal contest more easily conceived than described. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- There was a sound behind them, as of an imperfectly suppressed chuckle. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Speak your commands, said Cedric, with suppressed emotion. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- She interrupted with a suppressed fire of which either love or anger seemed an equally possible issue, Do you love me now? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The king's method of suppressing insurrections. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- And Mr. Snagsby again relates his experience, again suppressing the half-crown fact. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- In Otero, that night, was when he first killed and he hoped he would not have to kill in this of the suppressing of these posts. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He split up the iron core of the armature into thin laminations, separated by paper, thus practically suppressing Foucault currents therein and resulting heating effect. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- To whom the law-stationer relates his Joful and woeful experience, suppressing the half-crown fact. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I trust it confidently to your not suppressing anything. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I have made it, thus far, with no purpose of suppressing any of my thoughts; for, as I have elsewhere said, this narrative is my written memory. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I hold it, therefore, to be certain that he does know who these men are, and that for reasons of his own he suppresses it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Permit me, Madame Clennam who suppresses, to present Monsieur Flintwinch who intrigues. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Society suppresses us and dominates us--Bird, be quiet! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
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