Word Finder - suppress

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To put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue.

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Political dissent was brutally suppressed.

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To restrain or repress, such as laughter or an expression.

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I struggled to suppress my smile.

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To exclude undesirable thoughts from one's mind.

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He unconsciously suppressed his memories of abuse.

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To prevent publication.

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The government suppressed the findings of their research about the true state of the economy.

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To stop a flow or stream.

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Hot blackcurrant juice mixed with honey may suppress cough.

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To forbid the use of evidence at trial because it is improper or was improperly obtained.

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To reduce unwanted frequencies in a signal.

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To hold in place, to keep low.

Angry as she was, she couldn't suppress a smile.

He rubbed his arms, unable to completely suppress a shudder.

She turned away, seeking to suppress the beast, and grabbed her sword.

Katie tried to suppress it, not wanting to offend her friend, but it escaped.

Even their words did nothing to suppress her excitement.

Peace with Spain was concluded in 1659, and for some years afterwards Duquesne was occupied in endeavours to suppress piracy in the Mediterranean.

Cromwell left London in May to suppress the royalists in Wales, and took Pembroke Castle on the 11th of July.

Now and then they glanced at one another, hardly able to suppress their laughter.

Wiping tears from her eyes with her hand, she failed to suppress a sob.

He resolved to suppress many abuses, but, above all things, to check feudalism and limit the power of the nobles.

Prince Andrew introduced his protege, but Prince Dolgorukov politely and firmly pressing his hand said nothing to Boris and, evidently unable to suppress the thoughts which were uppermost in his mind at that moment, addressed Prince Andrew in French.

He kissed her hard and deep, his intensity making her hunger for him flare even as she tried to suppress it.

He was required to maintain the Protestant reformed religion and to suppress " all religion at variance with the gospel."

He paced, mind racing with memories he could no longer suppress, thoughts of his brother, of Claire, of Darian's death.

It united the moderate Liberals throughout Germany, and at once became a great political power, notwithstanding all the efforts of the governments, and especially of the king of Hanover to suppress it.

It not only made the efforts of the Turks to suppress the Greek revolt hopeless, but it made a breach difficult to heal in the traditional friendship between Great Britain and Turkey, which had its effect during the critical period of the struggle between Mehemet Ali and the Porte (1831-1841).

But, for political reasons, a powerful clique was determined to suppress Wagner.

During the lifetime of his uncle, Beaton had shared in the efforts of the hierarchy to suppress the reformed doctrines, and pursued the same line of conduct still more systematically after his elevation to the primacy.

He was on the way to suppress a revolt in Swabia when he was murdered on the st of May 1308, at Windisch on the Reuss, by his nephew John, afterwards called "the Parricide," whom he had deprived of his inheritance.

In France a law of the Revolution (September 1790) purported to suppress all ecclesiastical jurisdictions.

Until the Egyptian invasion in 1814 the Sharifs of Mecca were the recognized rulers of Hejaz, and though the Turks have attempted to suppress their importance, the Sharif still executes justice according to the Mahommedan law in the holy cities, though, nominally, as a Turkish official.

A number of British subjects resident in Comman- the Transvaal, in spite of their having no political status, were commandeered to suppress a native r i s i ng.

After America's entrance into the war they were frequently charged with disloyalty and in many towns attempts were made to suppress them.

But even the Puritans could not suppress betting.

President Celman underrated the strength of the new opposition, and relied upon his armed forces promptly to suppress any signs of open hostility.

This piece was favourably received, and an attempt to suppress it on religious grounds failed.

But before starting he was called upon to suppress disorder at home.

It was agreed " to suppress the direct and indirect bounties which might benefit the production or export of sugar, and not to establish bounties of this kind during the whole duration of the convention," which was to come into force on the 1st of September 1903, and to remain in force five years, and thenceforward from year to year, in case no state denounced it twelve months before the 1st of September in any year.

At his death it was found that he had left his mistress, with whom he had lived for four years, his sole executrix and legatee, and Greville notes in his Memoirs the anxiety of Brougham and others to get the papers into their hands and suppress them.

At the same time the burghers of Graaff Reinet also rebelled against the Cape authorities, who were powerless to suppress the insurrectionary movement.

Elizabeth required Grindal to suppress the "prophesyings" or meetings for discussion which had come into vogue among the Puritan clergy, and she even wanted him to discourage preaching; she would have no doctrine that was not inspired by her authority.

He fought at Rosebeke in 1382 against the Flemings and helped to suppress the Parisian revolts.

Jerusalem was occupied by an army which took advantage of the Sabbath and proceeded to suppress its observance.

In his appointments he was careful to avoid or to suppress any person who, being popular, might legitimize a rebellion by heading it.

The king of Spain, Philip IV., received the author coldly, and it is said even tried to suppress his book, fearing that the Portuguese, who had just revolted from Spain (1640), would profit by its information.

Deeming it wise to suppress his name, he adopted the pseudonym Ursinus, with reference to his protection by Bern.

He returned with letters of recommendation to Charles Martel, charged not only to convert the heathen but to suppress heresy as well.

Since the reconquest of the eastern Sudan by an Anglo-Egyptian force in 1898 effective measures have been taken to suppress slave raiding and as far as possible slavery itself.

He signed the Covenant, and was told off to suppress the opposition to the popular cause which arose around Aberdeen and in the country of the Gordons.

With great activity he set off to the central provinces of Minas and Sao Paulo to suppress disaffected movements and direct the revolution.

Republican movements now began to spread, to suppress which the authorities made use of the Portuguese remaining in the country; and the disposition of the emperor to consider these as his firmest supporters much influenced the course of his government and his future destiny.

From the first day that he assumed office, President Moraes showed that he intended to suppress praetorian systems and reduce militarism to a minimum.

In 1823, when the reactionary powers were meditating joint action to suppress the - revolution in Spain, the government without consultin P ?

In this same year the farmers of the Zoutpansberg district were driven into laagers by a native rising which they were unable to suppress.

The cabinet, in which Baron Louis was minister of finance, and Marshal Gouvion Saint Cyr remained minister' of war, was entirely Liberal; and its first act was to suppress the ministry of police, as Decazes held that it was incompatible with the regime of liberty.

When the yeomanry were called out to suppress riots after the Peace, his sympathies were with the people rather than with the authorities.

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Remembering their youthful attempts at playing songs in waltz time, McLennan ca n't suppress a laugh.

As for copes, in some places they were ordered to be worn, and were worn at the Holy Communion, 4 while elsewhere they were thrown into the bonfires with the rest.5 The difficulty seems to have been not to suppress the chasuble, of the use of which after 1559 not a single authoritative instance has been adduced, but to save the surplice, which the more zealous Puritans looked on with scarcely less disfavour.

The whole system was designed to suppress the competition of outsiders, but the divergent interests of individuals and towns, the pressure of competition and changing commercial conditions, in part the reactionary character of the legislation, made enforcement difficult.