Definition of suppress

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Suppress (v. t.) To keep in; to restrain from utterance or vent; as, to suppress the voice; to suppress a smile..

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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..
Twitter :: Twitter (n.) A half-suppressed laugh; a fit of laughter partially restrained; a titter; a giggle.
Overbear :: Overbear (v. t.) To bear down or carry down, as by excess of weight, power, force, etc.; to overcome; to suppress..
Strangle :: Strangle (v. t.) To hinder from appearance; to stifle; to suppress.
Abeyance :: Abeyance (n.) Suspension; temporary suppression.
Janizary :: "Janizary (n.) A soldier of a privileged military class, which formed the nucleus of the Turkish infantry, but was suppressed in 1826..
Supprise :: Suppressor (n.) One who suppresses.
Suppressor :: Suppressive (a.) Tending to suppress; subduing; concealing.
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..
Insuppressible :: Insuppressible (a.) That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible.
Quash :: Quash (v. t.) To crush; to subdue; to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely; as, to quash a rebellion..
Suppressive :: Suppression (n.) Omission; as, the suppression of a word..
Extinguishable :: Extinguishable (a.) Capable of being quenched, destroyed, or suppressed..
Synallagmatic :: Synalepha (n.) A contraction of syllables by suppressing some vowel or diphthong at the end of a word, before another vowel or diphthong; as, th' army, for the army..
Elison :: Elison (n.) The cutting off or suppression of a vowel or syllable, for the sake of meter or euphony; esp., in poetry, the dropping of a final vowel standing before an initial vowel in the following word, when the two words are drawn together..
Chuckle :: Chuckle (v. i.) To laugh in a suppressed or broken manner, as expressing inward satisfaction, exultation, or derision..
Burke :: Burke (v. t.) To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary question..
Repeal :: Repeal (v. t.) To suppress; to repel.
What :: What (pron., a., & adv.) Used substantively with the antecedent suppressed, equivalent to that which, or those [persons] who, or those [things] which; -- called a compound relative..
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..
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