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suppress
[ suh-pres ]
verb (used with object)
- to put an end to the activities of (a person, body of persons, etc.):
to suppress the Communist and certain left-leaning parties.
- to do away with by or as by authority; abolish; stop (a practice, custom, etc.).
- to keep in or repress (a feeling, smile, groan, etc.).
- to withhold from disclosure or publication (truth, evidence, a book, names, etc.).
- to stop or arrest (a flow, hemorrhage, cough, etc.).
- Genetics. to keep (a gene) from being expressed:
Let's say that future genetic engineers discover a gene for suicidal depression, and learn how to suppress the gene or adjust it.
- Electricity. to reduce or eliminate (an irregular or undesired oscillation or frequency) in a circuit.
suppress
/ əˈɛ /
verb
- to put an end to; prohibit
- to hold in check; restrain
I was obliged to suppress a smile
- to withhold from circulation or publication
to suppress seditious pamphlets
- to stop the activities of; crush
to suppress a rebellion
- electronics
- to reduce or eliminate (unwanted oscillations) in a circuit
- to eliminate (a particular frequency or group of frequencies) in a signal
- psychiatry
- to resist consciously (an idea or a desire entering one's mind)
- to exercise self-control by preventing the expression of (certain desires) Compare repress
Derived Forms
- ܱˈ, noun
- ܱˈ, adjective
Other yvlog Forms
- ܱ··· adjective
- ܱ·· adjective
- ܱ···ly adverb
- ܱ··ǰ ܱ·· noun
- non·ܱ·· adjective
- non·ܱ···ly adverb
- non·ܱ···ness noun
- ·ܱ· verb (used with object)
- ·ܱ· verb (used with object)
- -ܱ··Բ adjective
- self-ܱ·· adjective
- un·ܱ··· adjective
- un·ܱ·· adjective
yvlog History and Origins
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of suppress1
Example Sentences
The signs include “identification of enemies as a unifying cause,” “controlled mass media,” “corporate power protected,” “labor power suppressed,” “disdain for intellectuals and the arts,” “obsession with crime and punishment,”and “rampant cronyism & corruption.”
Spared thanks to the efforts of his employer, Google, Alvin stumbles upon secret information that reveals suppressed details about the camps.
A measles infection temporarily suppresses the immune system, Mina said, and it was long assumed that opportunistic infections around the time of the illness were the result of that short-term suppression.
“The reality is that vaccine safety — like all areas of medicine — benefits from rigorous, open research, and suppressing inquiry would be counterproductive.”
To tech aficionados, the whole affair evokes the “Streisand effect,” in which an effort to suppress something online only makes it more conspicuous.
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