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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



... strong evidence of a sharp renewal of his internal pains, that both noblemen hesitated to obey. The damp of agony stood upon his forehead a moment in large drops, then absolutely poured down his cheeks, while his gaunt frame shook with the effort to suppress the groan which his throes wrung from him. Seizing a cordial near him, Buchan presented it on his knee, but Edward only waved them both away, angrily and impatiently pointing to the door. He loved not the weakness of an appalling disease to be witnessed by his courtiers. When utterly ...
— The Days of Bruce Vol 1 - A Story from Scottish History • Grace Aguilar

... she bought the afternoon papers, and was relieved to find no mention of the incidents of the night before. It appeared that Hammon and Merkle had succeeded in their attempt to suppress the story—if, indeed, there had ever been any intention of ...
— The Auction Block • Rex Beach

... gentleman did as much credit to his country as Malone had done it discredit. He proved himself as decent, decorous, and conscientious as Peter was rampant, boisterous, and—— This last epithet I choose to suppress, because it would let the cat out of the bag. He laboured faithfully in the parish. The schools, both Sunday and day schools, flourished under his sway like green bay trees. Being human, of course he had his faults. ...
— Shirley • Charlotte Bronte

... goggles, and then put on his own, and changed his soft hat, which had two or three times threatened to blow off, for a cap that would stay on in any wind. And, as he faced them, Bessie had all she could do to suppress a sharp cry of amazement, and she was more than thankful for the goggles that partly concealed her start of surprise and dismay. For the sight of Holmes, thus equipped, had recalled something that seemed in a way, at least, to explain her feeling ...
— The Camp Fire Girls on the Farm - Or, Bessie King's New Chum • Jane L. Stewart

... believed I was wrong, and that the withdrawal of my letter would be a great help to the Government. I replied that my weekly editorials in the Christian Guardian (of which I had consented to be re-elected Editor) showed that I was anxious to suppress the factious and party hatreds of the day, and to place the Government upon a broad foundation of loyalty and justice; that what I had written in the case of Mr. Bidwell had been written by me as an individual and not as the editor of the organ of a religious body, and had been written ...
— The Story of My Life - Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada • Egerton Ryerson


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