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Definition: Suppressed |
SuppressedAdjective1. Kept from public knowledge by various means;. 2. Manifesting or subjected to suppression; "a suppressed press". 3. Held in check with difficulty; "a smothered cough"; "a stifled yawn"; "a strangled scream"; "suppressed laughter". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "suppressed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | One of the four main crown classes recognised on a basis of relative status and condition in the crop, more particularly for establishing thinning grades for pure regular crops; the trees have their crowns in the lower layers of the canopy, the leading shoots are not free, and the trees are growing very slowly. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: SuppressedSynonyms: smothered (adj), stifled (adj), strangled (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: publicized (adj). (additional references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Suppressed Evidence (1912) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | A laminar airflow unit is a protective covering for people with suppressed immune systems. In this germ-free environment the air flows out one way and the germs cannot re-enter the system. Shown are a nurse and a child inside the protective unit. The nurse is reading to the child. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Marcus T. Cicero | Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered. |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy. |
Thomas Carlyle | Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether. |
Ursula K. Legrim | I doubt that imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | They pretend that this Vaugirard cemetery is going to be suppressed. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | As the sparrow had its trill, sitting on the hickory before my door, so had I my chuckle or suppressed warble which he might hear out of my nest. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | They may also result from activation of nerve pathways that are normally suppressed. (references) | |
Otherwise, the normal gag-reflex may be suppressed, and there could be a danger of choking. (references) | ||
Prolactin secretion in the pituitary is normally suppressed by the brain chemical, dopamine. (references) | ||
Business | The authorities forcibly suppressed the demonstration. (references) | |
Police reportedly suppressed large-scale labor demonstrations in several provinces, including Sichuan. (references) | ||
Those activities viewed as vehicles for political dissent, however, are not tolerated and are promptly and forcibly suppressed. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Algeria | These riots were suppressed, often with excessive force including live fire in some instances, killing more than 50 persons and injuring many hundreds more. (references) |
Bhutan | Kuensel was formerly government-run, and human rights groups in the past stated that government ministries reviewed editorial material and suppressed or changed content. (references) | |
Korea | However, in the same month the International Federation of Journalists stated that the tax probe had nothing to do with freedom of the press and that there was no evidence that freedom of the press was being suppressed. (references) | |
Economic History | Cameroon | The slave trade was largely suppressed by the mid-l9th century. (references) |
Cambodia | Remnants of the old society were abolished and Buddhism suppressed. (references) | |
Taiwan | Until 1995, the KMT authorities suppressed accounts of this episode in Taiwan history. (references) | |
Human Rights | Japan | However, the law does not require full disclosure by prosecutors, and material that the prosecution does not use in court may be suppressed. (references) |
Guinea | Conde's arrest led to street protests by RPG militants in Conakry, which were suppressed by police, resulting in the arrest and detention of many protesters. (references) | |
Belarus | In practice suspects' appeals to have their detentions reviewed by the courts frequently are suppressed because detention officials are unwilling to forward the appeals. (references) | |
Minorities | Zimbabwe | During the 1980's, the Shona-dominated Government suppressed what it called a brief Ndebele insurgency with a 5-year pacification campaign that killed an estimated 10,000 to 20,000 Ndebele civilians in Matabeleland, the region in which the Ndebele are concentrated. (references) |
Political Economy | Maldives | At President Gayoom's request, the Indian military suppressed the coup attempt within 24 hours. (references) |
Political Rights | Comoros | This coup was suppressed, and the leaders of the coup were detained. (references) |
Travel | Cote D'ivoire | During 2000, there were several violent events including a two-day military mutiny over pay issues; a brutally suppressed demonstration staged by the opposition party; an assassination attempt against the military junta leader; a popular uprising following the October elections that ousted the military junta leader and then turned into armed conflict between ethnic groups; and a political demonstration that turned violent. (references) |
Worker Rights | Cuba | Industrial accidents apparently were frequent, but the Government suppressed such reports. (references) |
China | Activities viewed as vehicles for political dissent, including celebration of some religious festivals, were not tolerated and were quickly and forcibly suppressed. (references) | |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Several agencies created by Executive authorities, on salaries fixed by that also, have been suppressed, and should suggest the expediency of regulating that power by law, so as to subject its exercises to legislative inspection and sanction. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Should this proposal be acceded to, it is not doubted that this odious and criminal practice will be promptly and entirely suppressed. |
Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 | The foreign slave trade, now imperfectly suppressed, would be ultimately revived without restriction in one section, while fugitive slaves, now only partially surrendered, would not be surrendered at all by the other. |
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| "Suppressed" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 47.35% of the time. "Suppressed" is used about 603 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 (past participle) | 47.35% | 286 | 17,222 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 27.32% | 165 | 24,305 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 25% | 151 | 25,596 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 603 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "suppressed": stifled strangled suppressed. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "suppressed": suppressed-carrier. | |
Ending with "suppressed": long-suppressed. | |
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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. |
| Language | Translations for "suppressed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مكبوت (curbed, penned, pent up, repressed, restrained, subdued). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | подтиснат (depressed, downtrodden, oppressed, subdued). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 压制 (suppress, Suppressing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | undertrykt (overtopped, subordinate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | onderstandig (overtopped, subordinate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | opprimé (subordinate), dominé (subordinate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unterdrückte (oppressed, quashed, repressed), niedergehalten. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κυριαρχούμενος,υπολειπόμενος (overtopped, subordinate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | elfojtott (pent-up, repressed, stifled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | tertindas (downtrodden, oppressed), tertekan (oppressed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sottostante (below, underlying), sottoposto (subject), oppresso (oppressed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 鎮まる (to abate, to be suppressed, to calm down, to die down, to quieten down, to subside), 静まる (to abate, to be suppressed, to calm down, to die down, to quieten down, to subside), 平らぐ (to be suppressed), 含み笑い (chuckle, giggle, smile, suppressed laugh). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | たいらぐ (to be suppressed), しずまる (to abate, to be suppressed, to calm down, to die down, to quieten down, to subside), ふくみわらい (chuckle, giggle, smile, suppressed laugh). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 억합하". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | plooghit (chesty, choked, close, congested, frowsty, fuggy, glutted, inundated, overcome with smoke, smothered, stifled, stunk out, suffocated, teeming, thick, thick as voice), mooghit (drowned, extinct, hollow, hollow as voice, jammed, quenched, sunk), currit fo chosh (quelled, subdued). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uppressedsay dominada (overtopped, subordinate), árvore dominada (overtopped, subordinate). (various references) подавлять;запрещать подавленный. (various references) dominada (dominated, intermediate, overtopped, subdominant, subordinate). (various references) undertryckt (pent up, pent-up, subdued). (various references) стримуваний (bottled, controllable), заборонений (forbidden, prohibited, taboo, tabu), придушений. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "suppressed": immunosuppressed. (additional references) | |
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"Suppressed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Supersad, supersed, suppesse, suppessed, supprised, supressed, suprised, surppressed, surpressed. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "suppressed" (pronounced supre"st) |
| 6 | -u p r e" s t | depressed, oppressed. |
| 5 | -p r e" s t | compressed, expressed, impressed, pressed, Prest, repressed, unimpressed. |
| 4 | -r e" s t | abreast, addressed, breast, crest, digressed, distressed, dressed, progressed, rest, stressed, transgressed, unaddressed, undressed, unrest, wrest. |
| 3 | -e" s t | acquiesced, arrest, assessed, attest, behest, bequest, best, blessed, blest, Celeste, chest, coalesced, confessed, congest, detest, digest, dispossessed, divest, fessed, finessed, gest, guessed, guest, infest, ingest, invest, jest, lest, messed, molest, nest, northwest, obsessed, pest, possessed, professed, quest, rearrest, reassessed, recessed, reinvest, repossessed, request, retest, southwest, suggest, test, vest, West, zest. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-p-p-r-s-s-s-u" | |
-2 letters: duresses, speedups, suppress. | |
-3 letters: depress, dresses, perdues, perused, peruses, pressed, presses, speedup, sudsers, supered, suppers. | |
-4 letters: drupes, druses, dupers, duress, perdue, perdus, perses, peruse, prudes, pseuds, pureed, purees, pursed, purses, pusses, repped, reused, reuses, rupees, seders, sepses, speeds, speers, sprees, sprues, sudser, sudses, suedes, supers, supped, supper, sussed, uppers. | |
-5 letters: deeps, deers, drees, dress. | |
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