Definition of suppress

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Suppress (v. t.) To retain without disclosure; to conceal; not to reveal; to prevent publication of; as, to suppress evidence; to suppress a pamphlet; to suppress the truth..

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Suppress :: Suppress (v. t.) To overpower and crush; to subdue; to put down; to quell.
Insuppressible :: Insuppressible (a.) That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible.
Underkeep :: Underkeep (v. t.) To keep under, or in subjection; to suppress..
Strangle :: Strangle (v. t.) To hinder from appearance; to stifle; to suppress.
Suppressive :: Suppression (n.) Omission; as, the suppression of a word..
Subreptitious :: Subreption (n.) The act of obtaining a favor by surprise, or by unfair representation through suppression or fraudulent concealment of facts..
Synallagmatic :: Synalepha (n.) A contraction of syllables by suppressing some vowel or diphthong at the end of a word, before another vowel or diphthong; as, th' army, for the army..
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..
Snicker :: Snicker (n.) A half suppressed, broken laugh..
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..
Suppressor :: Suppressive (a.) Tending to suppress; subduing; concealing.
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..
Sink :: Sink (v. t.) To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
Cancel :: Cancel (v. i.) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type..
Extinguishable :: Extinguishable (a.) Capable of being quenched, destroyed, or suppressed..
Vicarious :: Vicarious (prep.) Acting as a substitute; -- said of abnormal action which replaces a suppressed normal function; as, vicarious hemorrhage replacing menstruation..
Suppress :: Suppress (v. t.) To keep in; to restrain from utterance or vent; as, to suppress the voice; to suppress a smile..
Smoulder :: Smoulder (v. i.) To exist in a state of suppressed or smothered activity; to burn inwardly; as, a smoldering feud..
Chuckle :: Chuckle (n.) A short, suppressed laugh; the expression of satisfaction, exultation, or derision..
Overbear :: Overbear (v. t.) To bear down or carry down, as by excess of weight, power, force, etc.; to overcome; to suppress..
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