suppressed

[ US /səˈpɹɛst/ ]
[ UK /səpɹˈɛst/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. kept from public knowledge by various means
  2. manifesting or subjected to suppression
    a suppressed press
  3. held in check with difficulty
    suppressed laughter
    a stifled yawn
    a smothered cough
    a strangled scream
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How To Use suppressed In A Sentence

  • The literature on rationale effects provided a good deal of support for the general position that undesirable behaviors can often be suppressed without resorting to punishment. Advanced Educational Psychology For Educators, Researchers and Policymakers,
  • A week-long state of emergency was declared, and the protests were forcibly suppressed with considerable loss of life.
  • A quarter of the MS sufferers had their condition effectively suppressed. Times, Sunday Times
  • Their ideological differences are suppressed but not resolved. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is this ferocity that is often unacknowledged or suppressed. Times, Sunday Times
  • During the early stages of plant development, internode elongation is suppressed and only leaves expand.
  • 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
  • It revealed why crossing-over should be suppressed between the centromere and the nucleolus organizer in organisms in which chiasmata terminalize, from the initial loaction of a crossover to the end of the arm of the chromosome. Nobel Lecture The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge
  • This last one—lip balm—is expressed with the mildest spit of emotion, the only hint of the suppressed rage against the dominatrix.
  • The relationship between body posture and suppressed past trauma or emotions was touched on in the section dealing with cervical reintegration.
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