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Suppression :: Suppression (n.) Complete stoppage of a natural secretion or excretion; as, suppression of urine; -- used in contradiction to retention, which signifies that the secretion or excretion is retained without expulsion..

Stifle :: Stifle (v. t.) To suppress the manifestation or report of; to smother; to conceal from public knowledge; as, to stifle a story; to stifle passion..

Suppressive :: Suppression (n.) Omission; as, the suppression of a word..

Stupor :: Stupor (n.) Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression of sense or feeling; lethargy.

Ischury :: Ischury (n.) A retention or suppression of urine.

Overbear :: Overbear (v. t.) To bear down or carry down, as by excess of weight, power, force, etc.; to overcome; to suppress..

Murmur :: Murmur (v. i.) A complaint half suppressed, or uttered in a low, muttering voice..

Extinction :: Extinction (n.) State of being extinguished or of ceasing to be; destruction; suppression; as, the extinction of life, of a family, of a quarrel, of claim..

Lay :: Lay (v. t.) To cause to be still; to calm; to allay; to suppress; to exorcise, as an evil spirit..

Suppress :: Suppress (v. t.) To overpower and crush; to subdue; to put down; to quell.

Suppressor :: Suppressive (a.) Tending to suppress; subduing; concealing.

Twitter :: Twitter (n.) A half-suppressed laugh; a fit of laughter partially restrained; a titter; a giggle.

Snicker :: Snicker (v. i.) To laugh with audible catches of voice, as when persons attempt to suppress loud laughter..

Burke :: Burke (v. t.) To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary question..

Insuppressible :: Insuppressible (a.) That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible.

Janizary :: "Janizary (n.) A soldier of a privileged military class, which formed the nucleus of the Turkish infantry, but was suppressed in 1826..

Metemptosis :: Metemptosis (n.) The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the bissextile day once in 134 years. The opposite to this is the proemptosis, or the addition of a day every 330 years, and another every 2,400 years..

Abatement :: Abatement (n.) The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; removal or putting an end to; as, the abatement of a nuisance is the suppression thereof..

Sink :: Sink (v. t.) To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.

Restrain :: Restrain (v. t.) To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress or suppress; to keep down; to curb..

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