[ UK /səpɹˈɛs/ ]
[ US /səˈpɹɛs/ ]
VERB
  1. bring under control by force or authority
    conquer one's desires
    stamp down on littering
    suppress a nascent uprising
  2. put out of one's consciousness
  3. come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority
    The government oppresses political activists
  4. consciously restrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior
    he let his anger bottle up until he exploded
    suppress a smile
  5. lessen to the point of stopping
    this drug can suppress the hemorrhage
    suppress a yawn
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How To Use suppress In A Sentence

  • In the toad and in the dog, adrenalectomy diminishes but does not suppress the diabetogenic effect of the anterior lobe extract, which can be obtained in adrenalectomized dogs, in which the pancreas has been surgically reduced, and which are kept alive by treatment with desoxycorticosterone and salt or even with sodium chloride alone. Bernardo Houssay - Nobel Lecture
  • Faustman’s approach offered a distinct advantage over much of the current treatment in autoimmunity, which is usually more broadly immunosuppressive—meaning it tinkers with all T cells or all B cells in order to try to keep the autoimmune reaction from occurring. The Autoimmune Epidemic
  • A week-long state of emergency was declared, and the protests were forcibly suppressed with considerable loss of life.
  • Its addition in minute amounts to the nucleoprotein tumor fraction, was expected to suppress the formation of the fibrillar halo if nucleic acids rather that the protein were responsible for the nerve growth promoting effect elicited by this fraction. Nobel Lecture The Nerve Growth Factor: Thirty-Five Years Later
  • A quarter of the MS sufferers had their condition effectively suppressed. Times, Sunday Times
  • Companies make use of sokaiya to settle many kinds of trouble, to collect underground information, and to suppress common shareholders.
  • Their ideological differences are suppressed but not resolved. Times, Sunday Times
  • Chronically stressed mammals produce hormones called glucocorticoids, which can suppress certain immune-system and gonadal functions when the hormones remain elevated.
  • I do think one of the downfalls of diet drugs and appetite suppressants is that they still don't teach you how to eat.
  • The acrylic acid, catechol best suppression bacterium respectively is the golden yellow staphylococcus and the saccharomycetes.
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