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Definition: Suppress |
SuppressVerb1. To put down by force or authority; "suppress a nascent uprising", "stamp down on littering" "conquer one's desires". 2. Come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority; "The government oppresses political activists". 3. Control and refrain from showing; of emotions. 4. Keep under control; keep in check; "suppress a smile"; "Keep your temper"; "keep your cool". 5. Put out of one's consciousness; in psychiatry. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "suppress" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Note: Suppress \Sup*press"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Suppressed; present participle verb or noun Suppressing.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: SuppressSynonyms: bottle up (v), conquer (v), crush (v), curb (v), hold back (v), inhibit (v), keep (v), keep back (v), oppress (v), repress (v), restrain (v), stamp down (v), subdue (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Aphony | Silence; render mute, render silent; muzzle, muffle, suppress, smother, gag, strike dumb, dumfounder; drown the voice, put to silence, stop one's mouth, cut one short. |
Concealment | Keep from; keep back, keep to oneself; keep snug, keep close, keep secret, keep dark; bury; sink, suppress; keep from, keep from out of view, keep from out of sight; keep in the shade, throw into the shade, throw into background; stifle, hush up, smother, withhold, reserve; fence with a question; ignore. |
Destruction | Destroy; do away with, make away with; nullify; annual; sacrifice, demolish; tear up; overturn, overthrow, overwhelm; upset, subvert, put an end to; seal the doom of, do in, do for, dish, undo; break up, cut up; break down, cut down, pull down, mow down, blow down, beat down; suppress, quash, put down, do a job on; cut short, take off, blot out; dispel, dissipate, dissolve; consume. |
Restraint | Keep under; repress, suppress; smother; pull in, rein in; hold, hold fast; keep a tight hand on; prohibit; inhibit, cohibit. |
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Screenplays | Suppress it. (Ninotchka; writing credit: Melchior Lengyel; Charles Brackett) | |
Clever | It is bad to suppress laughter; it goes back down and spreads to your hips. (references; author: unknown) | |
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Frederick Douglass | The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress. |
Mencius | Suppress slanders and protect the innocent. |
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John Locke | 1690 | Why, in such a constitution as this, the dissolution of the government in these cases is to be imputed to the prince, is evident; because he, having the force, treasure and offices of the state to employ, and often persuading himself, or being flattered by others, that as supreme magistrate he is uncapable of controul; he alone is in a condition to make great advances toward such changes, under pretence of lawful authority, and has it in his hands to terrify or suppress opposers, as factious, seditious, and enemies to the government: whereas no other part of the legislative, or people, is capable by themselves to attempt any alteration of the legislative, without open and visible rebellion, apt enough to be taken notice of, which, when it prevails, produces effects very little different from foreign conquest. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Constitution | 1791 | Clause 1: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; Clause 2: To borrow Money on the credit of the United States; Clause 3: To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes; Clause 4: To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States; Clause 5: To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures; Clause 6: To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States; Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads; Clause 8: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; Clause 9: To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court; Clause 10: To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations; Clause 11: To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; Clause 12: To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; Clause 13: To provide and maintain a Navy; Clause 14: To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces; Clause 15: To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; Clause 16: To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress; Clause 17: To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, byCession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;--And Clause 18: To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof. (reference) |
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Health | A drug given to suppress the natural immune responses. (references) | |
In addition, IVIG may suppress GVHD in some patient groups. (references) | ||
Many antidepressants suppress activity in the neurons that use acetylcholine. (references) | ||
Business | Authorities deny permits and quickly move to suppress demonstrations involving expression of dissenting political views. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Morocco | At times the authorities suppress the activities of Islamists, but generally tolerate activities limited to the propagation of Islam, education, and charity. (references) |
Honduras | Payments to journalists to investigate or suppress certain stories continued, although no individual journalist was accused publicly of engaging in the practice. (references) | |
Nicaragua | Although the legislature did not modify these provisions in the 1995 constitutional reforms, the Government has not invoked these provisions to suppress the media. (references) | |
Economic History | Albania | At the end of the 19th century, efforts by the Turks to suppress Albanian nationalism failed. (references) |
Russia | During the 19th century, the Russian Government sought to suppress repeated attempts at reform from within. (references) | |
Benin | Child labor is widespread and the gob, although not formally permitting the practice, makes little effort to suppress it. (references) | |
Human Rights | Comoros | On Anjouan local authorities continued to attempt to suppress or convert the Christian minority. (references) |
Bhutan | Human rights groups contend that the charges brought against Dorji by the Bhutenese government are motivated politically and constitute an attempt by the Government to suppress his prodemocracy activities. (references) | |
Political Economy | Libya | Qadhafi uses summary judicial proceedings to suppress domestic opposition. (references) |
Political Rights | Djibouti | The RPP also continues to control carefully the implementation of the four-party system to suppress any organized opposition. (references) |
China | The Government continued efforts to suppress the China Democracy Party, an organization that had attracted hundreds, perhaps thousands, of members nationwide since its founding in 1998. Public security forces have arrested nearly all of its most important leaders. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Belarus | The authorities have taken numerous measures to suppress independent trade unions. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Like success has attended our efforts to suppress the slave trade. |
James Buchanan | 1857-1861 | Let every Union-loving man, therefore, exert his best influence to suppress this agitation, which since the recent legislation of Congress is without any legitimate object. |
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| "Suppress" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Suppress" is used about 551 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 87.5% | 482 | 12,355 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 12.32% | 68 | 40,606 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.18% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 551 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "suppress": suppress criticism ♦ suppress discussion. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
suppress appetite | 12 |
suppress | 7 |
plus suppress | 7 |
motion suppress | 5 |
appetite food suppress that | 2 |
evidence motion suppress | 2 |
popup suppress | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "suppress"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | onderdruk (choke, quell, suffocate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shuaj (beat out, blanket, blow out, Burke, clean off, damp, delete, douse, drown, efface, erase, expunge, extinguish, kill, obliterate, out, quash, quell, quench, rake out, remove, scratch out, settle, slack, slake, turn off, ungear, wipe, wipe away, wipe off, wither), shtyp (bruise, clench, compact, crush, Dent, depress, die, grind, newspapers, oppress, organ, override, pestle, pound, press, print, push down, quash, quell, repress, run down, run over, scotch, squash, squeeze, stamp, step, strike off, swat, trample, trample down, triturate, type, tyrannize), ndrydh (check, clench, constrain, dislocate, jam, sprain, stifle, subdue, turn, vice, wrench, wrick), jap fund (terminate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كتم (conceal, concealment, harbor, harbour, hide, hiding, repress, restrain, secrete, subdue, withhold), كبت (bridle, check, contain, down, hold, hold back, inhibit, inhibition, keep, keep back, repress, repression, restrain, restraint, stifle, subdue, suppression, withhold), كبح (arrest, bridle, check, contain, control, curb, hamper, hinder, hold, hold back, inhibit, inhibition, keep back, keep down, keep under control, leash, master, press, prevent, rein, repress, repression, restrain, restraint, steady, subdual, subdue, suppression, tame, withhold), قمع (bridle, check, crush, funnel, put down, quash, quell, repress, repression, restrain, stamp down, subdue, suppression), وضع حدا (break, extinguish, put a stop to, ring, snuff out, split up, stop, terminate), حرم (abridge, ban, be bereaved, be forbidden, bereave, contraband, debar, deny, deprive, disable, dispossess, divest, excommunicate, forbade, forbid, geld, interdict, inviolable, outlaw, prohibit, proscribe, restrain, rob, sacred, sanctuary, starve, wife), حظر (ban, bar, debar, embargo, enjoin, forbade, forbid, forbiddance, forewarn, kill, outlaw, prohibit, prohibition, proscription, taboo), سحق (bash, batter, beat, beating, bow, break, crack, crumple, crunch, crush, flatten, grind, jam, levigate, mow, overwhelm, pound, pounding, powder, pulverization, pulverize, put down, quash, reduce, run over smth., scotch, slam, smash, squash, squeeze, squelch, steam roller, sweep, trample, tread, triturate, trituration), زود بإلة مزيلة للتشويش, أزال (abstract, assuage, ax, axe, bulldoze, clear, clear away, declassify, dismantle, dispel, eliminate, enucleate, eviscerate, excise, obliterate, preclude, put aside, relieve, remove, rest, retrench, rid, rub, rub out, settle, slip, smooth, stave off, take away), أخفى شهادة, أخفى (cloak, conceal, cover up, harbor, harbour, hid, hill, hush, keep, obscure, obstruct, palm, receive, secrete, shelter, smother, stash, stow, wrap), أخمد (dampen, die out, expire, fall, hush, lay, muffle, oppress, put out, quench, scotch, slake, smolder, smoulder, squelch, stifle, subside, trail off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | спирам (arrest, bit, block, brake, bring to, bring to rest, bring up, call a halt, cease, check, come to a halt, come to rest, cut, cut off, cut short, die, discontinue, draw up, drive up, dwell, end, fix, go phut, halt, hang up, heave to, hold back, hold in, immobilize, impede, inhibit, intervene, keep off, kill, leave off, lock, occlude, preclude, prevent, pull in, pull up, put in, quash, quit, run down, snub, stint, stop, suspend, trammel, trig, withhold), сдържам (command, contain, guard, pocket, press back, repress, restrain, smother, stifle), тая (cherish, entertain, harbour, smoulder), забранявам (ban, black out, disallow, enjoin, estop, forbid, inhibit, interdict, prohibit, proscribe, provide against, veto), премълчавам (elide, hold back, pass over, save one's breath), потъпквам (mortify, repress, stamp out, trample on, tread down, tread out, tread under, violate), потушавам (clamp, extinguish, mortify, overbear, put down, put out, quash, quell, quench, repress, smother, snuff out, squash, strangle, subdue, tread down), потулвам (blanket, clamp, conceal, hugger mugger, hush up, smother up, stifle, sweep under the carpet), потискам (clamp, depress, domineer, drive back, flatten, get down, grind, gripe, inhibit, mope, muffle, oppress, persecute, pocket, press in, prey, quell, quench, repress, throttle, tyrannize, weigh down), подтискам (constrict, grind down, gulp, oppress, repress, restrain, weight down), изземвам от печат. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 压制 (suppressed, Suppressing), 戡 (kill), "制 (inhibit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zatajit (conceal, hide, hold back), zamlèet (conceal), udusit (quash, smother, snuff out, throttle), potlaèit (contain, cork up, crush, fight down, hold back, hold in, inhibit, keep in, mince, put down, quash, quell, quench, repress, scotch, smother, snuff out, stamp out, stifle, stop, subdue, tame). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | lukke alle vinduer (to close all windows, to suppress all windows). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | onderdrukken (choke, quell, suffocate), verdringen (repulse), opkroppen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | sufoki (choke, quell, suffocate), subpremi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | kvala (choke, quell, strangle, suffocate), køva (choke, quell, suffocate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فرونشاندن (Appease, Calm, Curb, Extinguish, Infix, Lull, Pacify, Quash, Quell, Quench, Relieve, Remit, Repress, Sate, Slack, Soften, Stanch, Stifle, Tranquilize), پایمال کردن (Inculcate, Override, Overwhelm, Trample), منکوب کردن (Subjugate), موقوف کردن (Avoid, Discontinue, Dock, Overthrow, Subvert), مانع شدن (Ail, Debar, Exclude, Hamper, Hinder, Holdup, Impede, Inhibit, Obstruct, Obturate, Prevent, Rein, Resist, Revoke, Stop, Stymie), توقیف کردن (Apprehend, Arrest, Book, Confiscate, Detain, Grab, Impound, Intern, Seize, Sequester), تحت فشارقراردادن (Tension), خواباندن (Appease, Embed, Stop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tukehduttaa (choke, quell, suffocate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | suffoquer (suffocate), réprimer, étouffer (suffocate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unterdrücken (choke back, clamp down on, eliminate, fight back, fight down, hold back, hold down, hold under, keep back, keep down, oppress, put down, quash, quell, repress, restrain, shut out, sit on, throttle, to eliminate, to oppress, to repress, to suppress), ersticken (asphyxiate, be suffocated, become choked, choke, choke up, damp, muffle, muzzle, quell, smother, snuff, stifle, strangle, suffocate, throttle, to asphyxiate, to smother, to stifle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καταστέλλω (repress). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל"עלים ע"ויות, ל"כא (aggrieve, fight down, oppress, squelch, stifle, subdue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lenyom (-bore, -borne, keep down, push under, to chow sg down, to depress, to oppress, to overbear, to press down, to put down, to submerge, to weigh down, weigh down), elfojt (Burke, close down, damp, deafen, extinguish, quench, repress, smother, to bottle, to bottle up, to check, to curb, to damp, to deaden, to drown out, to inhibit, to mask, to put down, to quash, to quell, to repress, to silence, to smother, to stifle, to strangle, to strangulate, to subdue, to suppress, to tame, to throttle down, to wad). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | menggumam (matter), membenamkan (drown, immerse, scuttle, sink), gumam (mumble), gencet (squeeze, urge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | soffocare (choke, quell, smother, squash, stamp out, stifle, suffocate, swelter), opprimere (bully, charge, grind, load, oppress, overlay, overpower, ride, smother, soffocate, tyrannize, vex, weigh down). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 絶つ (to abstain from, to cut off, to sever, to suppress), 断つ (to abstain from, to cut off, to sever, to suppress). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | たつ (dragon, fifth sign of Chinese zodiac, promoted rook, to abstain, to be built, to be erected, to cut, to cut off, to depart, to erect, to initiateaction, to lapse, to pass, to rise up, to sever, to stand, to suppress), おさえる (to arrest, to check, to control, to curb, to press down, to repress, to restrain, to seize, to stop, to suppress), しずめる (to appease, to calm, to sink, to submerge, to suppress), き"ずる (to forbid, to suppress), か"じょう'"ろす (to suppress one's emotions), '"ろ"'ふうさつする (to suppress the freedom of speech). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 억합하십시". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | smaghtey (castigate, chasten, chastening, check, checking, control, curb, discipline, manage, master, repression), mooghey (blank off, blot out, blow out, choking, damp, drown, dull, expire, extinction, extinguish, gulp back, hold back, hush up, jam, quench, shut off, stamp out, stifle, switch off, turn off), keiltyn (conceal, concealment, cover, cover up, disguise, dissimulate, dissimulation, harbour, hide, renege, shelter, sneak, suppression, veil, veneer), cur sheese (book, deposit, depress, discharge, give in, lay, lower, prescribe, put down, salt, send down), cur fo chosh (get under, overwhelm, reduce, rid, subdue, suppression), castey (appease, beat back, censor, check, choke back, contain, counter, cure, defeat, end, freeze, freeze as loan, hitch, inhibit, preclude, staunch, stave off, throwing stones). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uppresssay sufocar (choke, quell, smother, stifle, strangle, suffocate, throttle), abafar (blanket, burke, choke, cover up, cushion, damp, drench, drown, hugger-mugger, hush up, muffle, pilfer, quell, smother, steal the show, stifle, suffocate, swelter). (various references) suprima (abolish, abrogate, discontinue, eliminate, make an end of, remove, repeal, retrench, rid, scotch, supersede), sugruma (Burke, choke, jugulate, smother, stifle, strangle, throttle), reprima (quash, quell, repress), refula (repress), potoli (becalm, compromise, dulcify, dull, hush, lighten, lull, mollify, quench, quiet, reassure, relieve, slack, slake, smooth, smooth down, sober, solace, stay, still, subdue, sweeten, temper, tranquillize), desfiinţa (abolish, abrogate, annul, destroy, disband, disestablish, dissolve, level away, liquidate, neutralize, repeal, undo, uproot), coborî (abate, alight, bring low, climb down, come down, couch, cut, debase, decline, depreciate, descend, detrain, dip, dismount, down, drop, duck, fall, get off, go down, lower, move down, reduce), şi stãpâni, înãbuşi (blanket, bring under, choke, control, deaden, deafen, drown, hush, keep down, kill, mortify, muffle, quash, quell, quench, restrain, smother, stifle, strangle, suffocate, throttle). (various references) усмирить (pacify), запрещать (ban, cry down, disable, disallow, forbade, forbid, inhibit, interdict, proclaim, prohibit, proscribe, thumb down, veto), подавлять (bring under, browbeat, depress, grind, keep down, mortify, overbear, overpower, put down, quash, quell, quench, repress, smother, stifle, subdue, whelm), подавить (fight down). (various references) zataškati (hush up, whitewash), zabraniti (ban, bar, enjoin, forbid, interdict, nix, prohibit, proscribe, rule out), ugušiti (asphyxiate, burke, choke, muffle, nip, quash, quell, repress, scotch, smother, squash, stall, stifle, strangle, suffocate, throttle). (various references) suprimir (abate, annul, cancel, cut out, delete, do away with, keepdown, leave out, lift, omit, put down, remove, sit down on), sofocar (asphyxiate, break, choke, nearly die, put down, put out, quell, quench, smother, stifle, suffocate, suffocation, throttle), oprimir (actuate, aggrieve, compress, grasp, grind, grind down, hold down, keep down, oppress, overburden, press, push, squeeze, to queeze). (various references) undertrycka (hold down, inhibit, keep down, keep under, quell, quench, repress, restrain, smother, subdue, subjugate). (various references) zaptetmek (bridle, capture, contain, govern, hold back, hold down, hold in, keep down, possess oneself of, reave, seize, stifle, subjugate, swallow), yayınlanmasını yasaklamak, ortadan kaldırmak (abolish, annihilate, blot out, charm away, clear away, clear off, do away with, extinguish, hide from view, iron out, kill, make away with, put away, put out of sight, raze, remove, sweep, sweep away, take away), hasıraltı etmek (pigeonhole, shelve, sit upon), durdurmak (abort, arrest, baulk, block, bring short, call a halt, call off, cease, check, choke back, choke down, choke off, collar, Crimp, deactivate, discontinue, draw up, give over, halt, hold back, hold up, intercept, intermit, jam, jugulate, lock, paralyse, paralyze, pull in, pull up, put a stop to, shut off, stanch, staunch, stay, stem, still, stop, Stow, suspend), dindirmek (abate, alleviate, assuage, attemper, ease, kill, quench, quiet, quieten, relieve, salve, soothe, stop), bastırmak (allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, bear against, beat down, bottle up, Burke, choke, compress, crucify, depress, drown, extinguish, flow, gulp, gulp down, hold down, keep down, keep in, keep under, outtalk, overbear, overtake, pocket, push down, put down, quash, quell, quench, repress, restrain, set in, settle, settle in, silence, smother, smother up, squash, squelch, stamp, stifle, strangle, subdue, submerge, swallow, throttle back, throttle down, weigh, weigh down, whelm, whip), baskı altına almak, örtbas etmek (blanket, cloak, compound, conceal, cover up, explain away, gloss, gloss over, gloze, gloze over, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hush, hush up, keep smth. quiet, obscure, palliate, paper, sink, smother up, sweep under the carpet, veneer, wash out, whitewash), önlemek (arrest, avert, avoid, baffle, bank, circumvent, counterwork, estop, face up to, foil, foreclose, forestall, frustrate, get under control, head off, intercept, jugulate, keep back, obviate, occlude, preclude, prevent, prevent from, prohibit, repress, stay, thwart, ward, ward off). (various references) стримувати (abate, bound, bridle, chasten, check, coerce, constrain, contain, control, curb, deter, dominate, hold in, inhibit, moderate, pocket, rein, restrain, stay, stop, swaddle, swallow, temper), замовчувати (conceal, elide, hush up, slur, withhold), забороняти (bar, disallow, embar, enjoin, forbid, inhibit, interdict, proclaim, prohibit, provide, taboo, tabu, veto), придушувати (deject, depress, neutralize, outray, overgo, put down, quash, quell, quench, repress, stamp out, strangle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | abstruserit, conculco, conpresserit, conpresserunt, conprimaris, conprimebant, conprimentem, conprimerent, conprimit, conprimunt, consepulti, contere, conterebam, conterendam, conterendos, conterendum, conterens, conterent, conterentur, conterere, contererentur, contereret, contereris, conteres, conteret, conteretur, conteritis, conterretur, conterriti, conterritus, conteruit, depresserant, deprime, deprimebant, deprimentes, deprimentium, deprimeris, oppressa, oppresserat, oppresserunt, oppressi, oppressisti, oppressit, oppresso, oppressos, oppressum, oppressura, opprimamus, opprimantur, opprimaris, opprimas, opprimat, opprimatis, opprimebant, opprimens, opprimentes, opprimere, opprimerent, opprimes, opprimet, opprimetur, opprimi, opprimitur, opprimunt, sepelevit, sepeli, sepeliam, sepeliant, sepelias, sepeliat, sepeliebas, sepeliebat, sepeliendos, sepeliendum, sepelient, sepelientes, sepelientibus, sepelientur, sepelieris, sepelieritis, sepelierunt, sepelieruntque, sepelies, sepeliet, sepelietur, sepelire, sepelirent, sepeliret, sepelis, sepelissent, sepelistis, sepelite, sepelivi, sepelivit, sepulta, sepulto, sepultos, sepultura, sepulturae, sepulturam, sepulturaque, sepulturas, sepultus, sepultusque. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "suppress": suppressant, suppressants, suppressed, suppresses, suppressibilities, suppressibility, suppressible, suppressing, suppression, suppressions, suppressive, suppressiveness, suppressivenesses, suppressor, suppressors. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "suppress": immunosuppress. (additional references) | |
Words containing "suppress": immunosuppressant, immunosuppressants, immunosuppressed, immunosuppresses, immunosuppressing, immunosuppression, immunosuppressions, immunosuppressive, insuppressible. (additional references) | |
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"Suppress" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: subpress, suppesse, supppress, suppres, supres, supress, suprises, surpress. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "suppress" (pronounced supre"s) |
| 5 | -u p r e" s | depress, oppress. |
| 4 | -p r e" s | express, impress, press, repress. |
| 3 | -r e" s | aggress, cress, digress, distress, dress, egress, ers, fluoresce, redress, stress, transgress, tress, undress. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-p-p-r-s-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: suppers. | |
-2 letters: purses, pusses, sprues, supers, supper, uppers. | |
-3 letters: perps, preps, press, purse, puses, repps, ruses, sprue, spues, spurs, suers, super, supes, upper, users. | |
-4 letters: peps, perp, prep, pups, pure, purs, puss, repp, reps, rues, ruse, sers, spue, spur, suer, sues, supe, sups, sure, suss, user, uses. | |
-5 letters: ers, ess, pep, per, pes, pup, pur. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-p-p-r-s-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: supposers. | |
+2 letters: superposes, superspies, suppressed, suppresses, suppressor. | |
+3 letters: presupposes, purposeless, suppressant, suppressing, suppression, suppressive, suppressors. | |
+4 letters: phosphoruses, prospectuses, superexpress, superimposes, superpersons, superscripts, suppressants, suppressible, suppressions. | |
+5 letters: purposelessly, purposiveness, superspecials, suppositories. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Historic | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Quotations: Speeches 11. Usage Frequency 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Translations: Ancient 16. Derivations | 17. Rhymes 18. Anagrams 19. Bibliography |
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