Definition of suppress

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Suppress (v. t.) To retain without disclosure; to conceal; not to reveal; to prevent publication of; as, to suppress evidence; to suppress a pamphlet; to suppress the truth..

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Janizary :: "Janizary (n.) A soldier of a privileged military class, which formed the nucleus of the Turkish infantry, but was suppressed in 1826..
Smother :: Smother (v. t.) A state of suppression.
Twitter :: Twitter (v. i.) To make the sound of a half-suppressed laugh; to titter; to giggle.
Smoulder :: Smoulder (v. i.) To exist in a state of suppressed or smothered activity; to burn inwardly; as, a smoldering feud..
Amenorrhoea :: Amenorrhoea (n.) Retention or suppression of the menstrual discharge.
Oppress :: Oppress (v. t.) To put down; to crush out; to suppress.
Jesuitess :: "Jesuitess (n.) One of an order of nuns established on the principles of the Jesuits, but suppressed by Pope Urban in 1633..
Bissextile :: Bissextile (n.) Leap year; every fourth year, in which a day is added to the month of February on account of the excess of the tropical year (365 d. 5 h. 48 m. 46 s.) above 365 days. But one day added every four years is equivalent to six hours each year, which is 11 m. 14 s. more than the excess of the real year. Hence, it is necessary to suppress the bissextile day at the end of every century which is not divisible by 400, while it is retained at the end of those which are divisible by 400..
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..
Stop :: Stop (v. t.) To hinder from acting or moving; to prevent the effect or efficiency of; to cause to cease; to repress; to restrain; to suppress; to interrupt; to suspend; as, to stop the execution of a decree, the progress of vice, the approaches of old age or infirmity..
Sink :: Sink (v. t.) To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
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..
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..
Suppress :: Suppressing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suppres.
Insuppressive :: Insuppressive (a.) Insuppressible.
Cancel :: Cancel (v. i.) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type..
Stupor :: Stupor (n.) Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression of sense or feeling; lethargy.
Suppression :: Suppressible (a.) That may be suppressed.
Cancel :: Cancel (v. i.) The suppression or striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages..
Abeyance :: Abeyance (n.) Suspension; temporary suppression.
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