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UK
/səpɹˈɛs/
]
[ US /səˈpɹɛs/ ]
[ US /səˈpɹɛs/ ]
VERB
-
bring under control by force or authority
conquer one's desires
stamp down on littering
suppress a nascent uprising - put out of one's consciousness
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come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority
The government oppresses political activists -
consciously restrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior
he let his anger bottle up until he exploded
suppress a smile -
lessen to the point of stopping
this drug can suppress the hemorrhage
suppress a yawn
How To Use suppress In A Sentence
- 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
- 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
- The luciferin-luciferase's reaction system may emit fluorescence, while the toxic substances will suppress the luminous intensity.
- In partisan Republican circles, the pursuit of voter fraud is code for suppressing the votes of minorities and poor people. Archive 2007-03-01
- There are various classes of Secular Abbots; some have both jurisdiction and the right to use the pontifical insignia; others have only the abbatical dignity without either jurisdiction or the right to pontificalia; while yet another class holds in certain cathedral churches the first dignity and the privilege of precedence in choir and in assemblies, by reason of some suppressed or destroyed conventual church now become the cathedral. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
- 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
