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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Mince :: Mince (v. t.) To suppress or weaken the force of; to extenuate; to palliate; to tell by degrees, instead of directly and frankly; to clip, as words or expressions; to utter half and keep back half of..
Suppress :: Suppress (v. t.) To overpower and crush; to subdue; to put down; to quell.
Twitter :: Twitter (v. i.) To make the sound of a half-suppressed laugh; to titter; to giggle.
Burke :: Burke (v. t.) To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary question..
Undermirth :: Undermirth (n.) Suppressed or concealed mirth.
Extinguishable :: Extinguishable (a.) Capable of being quenched, destroyed, or suppressed..
Chuckle :: Chuckle (n.) A short, suppressed laugh; the expression of satisfaction, exultation, or derision..
Abatement :: Abatement (n.) The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; removal or putting an end to; as, the abatement of a nuisance is the suppression thereof..
Sorbonist :: Sorbonist (n.) A doctor of the Sorbonne, or theological college, in the University of Paris, founded by Robert de Sorbon, a. d. 1252. It was suppressed in the Revolution of 1789..
Stifle :: Stifle (v. t.) To suppress the manifestation or report of; to smother; to conceal from public knowledge; as, to stifle a story; to stifle passion..
Posse Comitatus :: Posse comitatus () The power of the county, or the citizens who may be summoned by the sheriff to assist the authorities in suppressing a riot, or executing any legal precept which is forcibly opposed..
Insuppressible :: Insuppressible (a.) That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible.
Strangle :: Strangle (v. t.) To hinder from appearance; to stifle; to suppress.
Suppression :: Suppressible (a.) That may be suppressed.
Abeyance :: Abeyance (n.) Suspension; temporary suppression.
Quash :: Quash (v. t.) To crush; to subdue; to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely; as, to quash a rebellion..
Murmur :: Murmur (v. i.) A complaint half suppressed, or uttered in a low, muttering voice..
Concealment :: Concealment (n.) Suppression of such facts and circumstances as in justice ought to be made known.
Mumble :: Mumble (v. t.) To suppress, or utter imperfectly..
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..
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