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suppress

verb

1 suppress

Bring under control by force or authority:
— Suppress a nascent uprising.

synonyms: conquer, stamp down, subdue.

Roget 581: keep silence etc. 585; speak low, speak softly; whisper etc. (faintness) 405.    silence; render mute, render silent; muzzle, muffle, ... show more

Roget 162: be destroyed &c.; perish; fall to the ground; tumble, topple; go to pieces, fall to pieces; break up; crumble to dust; go to the dogs, go to the wall, go to smash, go to shivers, ... show more

Dutch: bedwingen, beteugelen, onderdrukken, supprimeren

2 suppress

Come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority.

synonyms: crush, oppress.

Dutch: onderdrukken

3 suppress

Consciously restrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior:
— Suppress a smile.

synonyms: bottle up, inhibit.

Roget 528: conceal, hide, secrete, put out of sight; lock up, seal up, bottle up.    encrypt, encode, cipher.    cover, screen, cloak, veil, ... show more

Roget 751: restrain, check; put under restraint, lay under restraint; enthral, enthrall, inthral, inthrall, bethral, bethrall; restrict; debar etc. ... show more

Dutch: knarsetanden, tandenknarsen, verbijten

4 suppress

Put out of one's consciousness.

synonym: repress.

Dutch: verdringen, vergeten

5 suppress

Lessen to the point of stopping.


Moby thesaurus: abate, absorb the shock, allay, alleviate, annihilate, arrest, asphyxiate, assuage, attemper, ban, bank the fire, bar, beat down, bend, black out, block, blunt, bottle up, break, break down ... show more.

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