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verb

Suppress v. t. (past & past part. suppressed; pres. part. suppressing)

To overpower and crush; to subdue; to put down; to quell. "Every rebellion, when it is suppressed, doth make the subject weaker, and the prince stronger."

To keep in; to restrain from utterance or vent; as, to suppress the voice; to suppress a smile.

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. "She suppresses the name, and this keeps him in a pleasing suspense."

To stop; to restrain; to arrest the discharges of; as, to suppress a diarrhea, or a hemorrhage.

Synonyms: To repress; restrain; put down; overthrow; overpower; overwhelm; conceal; stifle; stop; smother.

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Etymology of 'Suppress'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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