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Suppress   /səprˈɛs/   Listen
Suppress

verb
(past & past part. suppressed; pres. part. suppressing)
1.
To put down by force or authority.  Synonyms: conquer, curb, inhibit, stamp down, subdue.  "Stamp down on littering" , "Conquer one's desires"
2.
Come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority.  Synonyms: crush, oppress.
3.
Control and refrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior.  Synonyms: bottle up, inhibit.
4.
Put out of one's consciousness.  Synonym: repress.
5.
Reduce the incidence or severity of or stop.  "This drug can suppress the hemorrhage"



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"Suppress" Quotes from Famous Books



... extraordinary, while the legislature and the judges are straining every nerve to suppress low gambling and punish its professors, they are the passive observers of a system pregnant with ten times more mischief in its consequences upon society, and infinitely more vicious, fraudulent, and base than any ...
— The English Spy • Bernard Blackmantle
... there is some mistake," he said, and struggle as he might to suppress it his tone was one of relief. "I understood that you had become engaged to be married to Mr. Owen Davies. If I am wrong I am sure ...
— Beatrice • H. Rider Haggard
... to suppress his resentment and submit. He thought it very essential to the success of his plans that he should see Cato, and secure, if possible, his interest and co-operation; and he consequently made preparations for paying, instead of receiving, the visit, intending to go in the greatest royal ...
— Cleopatra • Jacob Abbott
... rest of them. Every night when I come home, I find her sitting down with both feet done up in one of those beautiful scarfs she's collected, resting on a cushion. It's rather amusing, though." Ralph struggled to suppress his ...
— Angel Island • Inez Haynes Gillmore
... 1830. He left Montenegro larger and stronger than he found it, for he had worked hard to unite the ever-quarrelling tribes by establishing laws to suppress blood-feuds. Inability to cohere is ever the curse of Slav lands. Only a strong autocrat has as yet welded them. Petar earned the fame he bears ...
— Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle • Durham M. Edith


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