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suppress English

Meaning suppress meaning

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suppress Verb

— If something is suppressed, it is eliminated, stopped, or held back. The police suppressed the protesters outside. The opposition in the government were suppressed. Warm honey and water are said to suppress coughing. I struggled to suppress my smile.

suppress

— verb (= stamp down, conquer) to put down by force or authority suppress a nascent uprising stamp down on littering conquer one's desires — verb (= oppress) come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority The government oppresses political activists — verb (= inhibit) control and refrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior — 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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suppress English » English

repress restrain subdue quell stifle oppress put down control curb check stop hold back conceal inhibit subjugate crush quash conquer suffocate smother overcome hush up choke abolish quench keep down hold down hide wipe out vanquish tolerate swallow retain refrain press get rid of forbid endure coerce cancel bottle up bear be patient withhold tame strangle stem stamp down squelch squash

Topics suppress topics

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Language and thought Communication Say Ask

Hide your thoughts
Social behavior Authority Submit to authority

Rebel against authority

Conjugation suppress conjugation

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suppress · verb

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Simple sentences

Don't suppress your feelings.
It will take a long time to suppress the revolt.
The army was called to suppress the revolt.
Tom is trying to suppress a smile.
If you want to find peace, you must suppress arrogance, avarice and ambition of power.
When I saw his new hairstyle I tried hard to suppress my laughter.
Tom couldn't suppress his anger.
Tom tried to suppress a smile.

Movie subtitles

I might suppress it.
You mean they knew and ordered him to suppress the truth?
Suppress it.
Do you mean it was absolutely necessary to suppress it?
I can suppress temptation.
Maybe you can generate or whatever it is for all that suppress business, but.
Every impulse that we suppress broods in the mind and poisons us.
He's colluding with the militarists to suppress freedom of thought.
I must confess that I could not suppress an agreeable sensation of triumph as I approached the castle gateway in circumstances so different from those in which I had last done so.
Martin, take your jets in to suppress flak.
Despite our power the few of us would be busy indefinitely trying to suppress a large, hostile population.
I may be unable to suppress my natural charm, but try to remember, I've only to make one of several pre-arranged gestures at that window and your wife would be subjected to the most unbearable torture.
You're asking me to suppress a news story.
Some are pruned, so that they wouldn't suppress growth.
A superhuman race of unknown origin that we encountered during our mission to suppress the Zero-Zero cyborgs.
This longing I cannot suppress.
To suppress it? Yes.
You want to suppress it.
You owe it to him to suppress this if you possibly can.
There is a sorrow in the heart, that one cannot suppress.
We have here writ to Norway, uncle of Fortinbras, who, impotent and bed-ridden, scarcely hears of this his nephew's purpose, to suppress his further gait herein.
They will suppress the National Assembly,..
She's just like her father, a man I had to suppress.
Well, Mr. President, I said I'd never voluntarily suppress a message but I was wrong.
Four: If prior to this time. we have done nothing to suppress their retaliatory capabilities. we will suffer virtual annihilation.
Control your anger and suppress your dissatisfaction.
It has no reason to suppress the truth, it has no emotions.
I tried to suppress these thoughts, but they leak out in Second Level.
Suppress it and it hides away and festers.
We're trying to suppress some mortar fire off the tree line down there.
Rather, the worst aspect is that some scientists attempted to suppress Velikovsky's ideas.
Suppress goat.
And this is an extremely serious matter. But somehow we must find the will to suppress our instincts.
It is not easy to suppress yourself to become another.
We're gonna go inside and make a motion to suppress the search and seizure.

News and current affairs

As the uprising against the Ceausescu regime broke out in December 1989 in Timisoara, Stanculescu (together with General Chitac) was dispatched to the city and ordered to suppress all demonstrations by any available means.
Most commentators appear to think that Bush's latest prescription - a surge of 20,000 additional troops to suppress the militias in Baghdad - will, at best, merely postpone the inevitable death of his dream of a democratic Iraq.
Some military experts may say that Syria's air-defense systems are too sophisticated to suppress, making a no-fly zone too dangerous to enforce.
Perhaps a military dictator, like Chile's Pinochet, could suppress the social and political unrest that arises in such conditions.
Indeed, he described sitting on the back of a motorcycle with a stick to command police forces to suppress the massive demonstrations.
No, a large part of the divide is a direct result of domestic policies that suppress Internet and technology use.
They will need to understand the evolutionary dynamics of resistant populations, and design strategies to suppress or exploit the adapted characteristics.
These include, in particular, attempts to suppress artificially the fluctuations of the global marketplace by imposing price controls, export controls, marketing boards, and cartels.
If a campaign to suppress terrorism is based on broad coalitions that focus on de-legitimizing attacks on innocent non-combatants, it has some prospect of success.
Yet Germans, too, are unable to suppress such feelings.
Yet I have to admit that I still could not suppress a tiny, keenly felt pleasure when Germany lost to Spain.
Democracies stand for free speech; dictatorships suppress it.
To be sure, Russians went decades without opportunities to exercise entrepreneurship, while Ba'athist rule did not suppress Iraq's merchant class and entrepreneurial spirit in any comparable way.
Monopolists and dominant firms, like Microsoft, can actually suppress innovation.
A decade ago, fewer than 10,000 people were taking the new generation of antiretroviral drugs that suppress the disease and offer the promise of a normal life.
Indeed, secular dictators have worked to suppress the Brothers at every turn - often violently, as when Assad ruthlessly crushed a Brotherhood-led uprising in Hama in 1982.
One troubling aspect of this change is that the new leader may feel the need to resort to brute force more frequently in order to suppress popular resistance.
The eurozone should suppress any wounded pride, acknowledge that it needs help, and provide quickly what it has already promised.
Persuaded as they are that France should act alone, they would close the economy to foreign competition, suppress financial markets, and send immigrants back to their homelands.
And it is indeed farcical for China's government to try to suppress the yearning for freedom in the same brutal ways that Soviet-era communists once did.
He gave astounding orders to soldiers departing to suppress the Boxer Rebellion in China: they should awaken fear as had the Huns of yore.
But, over time, the longer central banks create liquidity to suppress short-run volatility, the more they will feed price bubbles in equity, bond, and other asset markets.

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