Word Finder - suppresses

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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.

This Long Period, However, May Be Reduced To Four Hundred Years; For Since The Dominical Letter Goes Back Five Places Every Four Years, Its Variation In Four Hundred Years, In The Julian Calendar, Was Five Hundred Places, Which Is Equivalent To Only Three Places (For Five Hundred Divided By Seven Leaves Three); But The Gregorian Calendar Suppresses Exactly Three Intercalations In Four Hundred Years, So That After Four Hundred Years The Dominical Letters Must Again Return In The Same Order.

The joint effect of such chilling and such annealing is to make the metal much harder than if slowly cooled, because for each 1% of graphite which the chilling suppresses, 15% of the glass-hard cementite is substituted.

It is universally agreed that the letters ad Familiares were published by Tiro, whose hand is revealed by the fact that he suppresses all letters written by himself, and modestly puts at the end those written to him.

Mode of Action Nitrous oxide suppresses spinal impulses and may supress supraspinal pathways.

It suppresses the white blood cells which trigger a rejection response to the transplanted organ.

Examples of such regulation are exerted by our novel findings showing glucocorticoids augments phagocytosis whereas elevation of cAMP suppresses phagocytosis of apoptotic cells.

If 0 suppresses printing and produces a map on disk in standard format.

When there's too much insulin in your blood, your body reacts by producing a chemical called somatostatin that suppresses insulin release.

Hard consonants were, and indeed still are, very difficult for her to pronounce in connection with one another in the same word; she often suppresses the one and changes the other, and sometimes she replaces both by an analogous sound with soft aspiration.

It also suppresses secretion of glucagon, a hormone which boosts plasma sugar levels.

When there 's too much insulin in your blood, your body reacts by producing a chemical called somatostatin that suppresses insulin release.

When spread over the top of the soil, mulch suppresses weeds, helps the soil retain moisture, and shades the roots of plants.

Made from recycled materials, bulk rubber mulch provides an effective product that suppresses weeds while helping to retain moisture in the soil.

When the eyes detect changes in the environment's light-dark cycle, the brain produces or suppresses melatonin to wake us up or induce sleep.

Regarding growth hormone suppression, normally, glucose suppresses hGH to levels ranging from undetectable to 3 ng/ml within 30 minutes to two hours.

Since it is suppresses the immune system, its use with children or over the long-term is cautioned because it can increase the risk of infection.

If children with sleep terror disorder or sleepwalking are treated with medication, then they may be given benzodiazepines because this type of medication suppresses stage three and stage four NREM sleep.

Instead of seeing two different images or double vision (diplopia), the brain suppresses the blurrier image.

Because the brain cannot fuse the two images, the brain suppresses the blurrier image, causing the eye to become amblyopic.

It is believed that the negative energy produced suppresses the body's immune system.

During this stage, the woman takes medication that suppresses her normal production of hormones.

He is also the science officer.Half-human, half-Vulcan, he self-identifies as Vulcan, and suppresses his human side.