meaning of suppress
1. To overpower and crush; to subdue; to put down; to quell.
2. To keep in; to restrain from utterance or vent; as, to suppress the voice; to suppress a smile.
3. 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.
4. To stop; to restrain; to arrest the discharges of; as, to suppress a diarrhea, or a hemorrhage.
5. to put down by force or authority; "suppress a nascent uprising"; "stamp down on littering"; "conquer ones
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Related Words
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