Suppress is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SUPPRESS in dictionary:

VERB:
• to subdue or hold back
• forcibly put an end to
• prevent the development, action, or expression of (a feeling, impulse, idea, etc.); restrain
• prevent the dissemination of (information)
• prevent or inhibit (a process or reaction)
• partly or wholly eliminate (electrical interference).
• consciously inhibit (an unpleasant idea or memory) to avoid considering it.
• To overpower and crush; to subdue; to put down; to quell.
• 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.
• To stop; to restrain; to arrest the discharges of; as, to suppress a diarrhea, or a hemorrhage.
• to put down by force or authority
• come down on or keep down by unjust use of one\'s authority
• control and refrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior
• put out of one\'s consciousness
• reduce the incidence or severity of or stop
• put an end to
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to put an end to forcibly

Words related to SUPPRESS

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Words that contain SUPPRESS

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How to use SUPPRESS in a sentence

• It is particularly to be observed that no effort was made to suppress Christian literature.
• The Puritans, a growing and energetic party, and the religious among the Anglican church, would suppress them.
• It seemed to her almost cruel to attempt to suppress the truth, but their reception of it went to her heart.
• But it was a tender theme, the public agitation of which the government was anxious to suppress.
• Mr Pinero is in no way bound to suppress the fact that his Iris is a person to be envied by millions of better women.
• Sometimes her hand next to him would be laid against her cheek, as if to conceal the smile which, in spite of her disapproval, she could not entirely suppress.
• Would he take upon him to say that he had a right, at his pleasure, to suppress a charge of this complicated nature? I had to accuse Mr.
• The novelist, his gaunt features twitching with the emotion that even his long schooling in the tragedies of life could not suppress, waited silently.
• The news of this disaster prompted the aged Emperor to dispatch his son Tiberius to suppress what appeared to be a general rising of the North.
• Their object is to suppress thought and leave the mind empty.
• As in other cases, the Brahmans did not suppress so much as adapt it.
• The stranger nearest him could have no thought of his proximity, or he would have taken more care to suppress any noise.
• They also had to suppress the part of Catherine de Medici who should preside at the conference where the massacre of St.
• Laws have been passed to suppress them, and dire penalties have been devised for their benefit.
• When Ferdinand was restored on the fall of Napoleon he employed an English officer, General Sir Richard Church, to suppress the brigands.
• With this important department in their hands they could suppress this evidence, or, if driven to desperation, destroy it.
• During the period of our colonial existence, the policy of the British Government had been to suppress the growth of manufacturing industry.
• Even members of the Academy could not suppress their detestation of him.
• In other times the railroad bought canals to suppress them.
• He understood now, and was unable to suppress this much answer.
• The caravans which passed from the Gulf of Aqaba to the north were attacked and plundered, and Solomon up to the end of his reign failed to suppress the brigands.
• On seeing him D’Artagnan could hardly suppress an exclamation of surprise.
• The highest considerations of public honor as well as the strongest promptings of humanity require a resort to the most vigorous efforts to suppress the trade.
• The United States led the way in efforts to suppress it.
• I was obliged studiously to suppress even my thoughts concerning her, lest the emotions they excited might be observed.
• Its popularity was very great, as is attested by the fact that when, in the House of Lords, in the year 1390, a bill was offered to suppress it, the measure signally failed.
• The stories of those who took part in the effort to suppress the traffic give some idea of its frightful cruelty.
• She could not suppress a momentary exclamation of astonished ecstasy at the spectacle.
• Notwithstanding his laughter at Mormonism, for example, he would not suppress it.
• We do not know just what were the means devised by Kravogl to suppress the current in the spheres to the right.

Similar words containing SUPPRES without suffix s

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