Definition of suppress

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Suppress (v. t.) To keep in; to restrain from utterance or vent; as, to suppress the voice; to suppress a smile..

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Extinguishable :: Extinguishable (a.) Capable of being quenched, destroyed, or suppressed..
Insuppressive :: Insuppressive (a.) Insuppressible.
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..
Telltale :: Telltale (n.) One who officiously communicates information of the private concerns of others; one who tells that which prudence should suppress.
Suppressing :: Suppressed (imp. & p. p.) of Suppres.
Override :: Override (v. t.) To suppress; to destroy; to supersede; to annul; as, one low overrides another; to override a veto..
Snicker :: Snicker (v. i.) To laugh with audible catches of voice, as when persons attempt to suppress loud laughter..
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..
Underkeep :: Underkeep (v. t.) To keep under, or in subjection; to suppress..
Suppressible :: Suppress (v. t.) To stop; to restrain; to arrest the discharges of; as, to suppress a diarrhea, or a hemorrhage..
Burke :: Burke (v. t.) To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary question..
Lay :: Lay (v. t.) To cause to be still; to calm; to allay; to suppress; to exorcise, as an evil spirit..
Abeyance :: Abeyance (n.) Suspension; temporary suppression.
Distribution :: Distribution (n.) The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston; viz., admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next admission..
Ischury :: Ischury (n.) A retention or suppression of urine.
Janizary :: "Janizary (n.) A soldier of a privileged military class, which formed the nucleus of the Turkish infantry, but was suppressed in 1826..
Repeal :: Repeal (v. t.) To suppress; to repel.
Chuckle :: Chuckle (n.) A short, suppressed laugh; the expression of satisfaction, exultation, or derision..
Oppress :: Oppress (v. t.) To put down; to crush out; to suppress.
Twitter :: Twitter (n.) A half-suppressed laugh; a fit of laughter partially restrained; a titter; a giggle.
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