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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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..
Jesuitess :: "Jesuitess (n.) One of an order of nuns established on the principles of the Jesuits, but suppressed by Pope Urban in 1633..
Amenorrhoea :: Amenorrhoea (n.) Retention or suppression of the menstrual discharge.
Snicker :: Snicker (n.) A half suppressed, broken laugh..
Undermirth :: Undermirth (n.) Suppressed or concealed mirth.
Suppress :: Suppressing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suppres.
Murmur :: Murmur (v. i.) A complaint half suppressed, or uttered in a low, muttering voice..
Mince :: Mince (v. t.) To suppress or weaken the force of; to extenuate; to palliate; to tell by degrees, instead of directly and frankly; to clip, as words or expressions; to utter half and keep back half of..
Extinguishment :: Extinguishment (n.) The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished; extinction; suppression; destruction; nullification; as, the extinguishment of fire or flame, of discord, enmity, or jealousy, or of love or affection..
Cenanthy :: Cenanthy (n.) The absence or suppression of the essential organs (stamens and pistil) in a flower.
Underkeep :: Underkeep (v. t.) To keep under, or in subjection; to suppress..
Concealment :: Concealment (n.) Suppression of such facts and circumstances as in justice ought to be made known.
Snicker :: Snicker (v. i.) To laugh with audible catches of voice, as when persons attempt to suppress loud laughter..
Ecthlipsis :: Ecthlipsis (n.) The dropping out or suppression from a word of a consonant, with or without a vowel..
Stupor :: Stupor (n.) Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression of sense or feeling; lethargy.
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..
Smother :: Smother (v. t.) A state of suppression.
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..
Suppressing :: Suppressed (imp. & p. p.) of Suppres.
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