Definition of suppress in English:

suppress

verb səˈprɛssəˈprɛs

[with object]

1Forcibly put an end to.
the rising was savagely suppressed
Example sentencesExamples
- These uprisings were ruthlessly suppressed, as were the Levellers in England after the Civil War.
- The army suppressed the uprising, killing ten thousand people.
- In fact, methods used to suppress the protests and uprisings, and witnessing staff in riot gear, caused ‘particular stress’ to children.
- Meanwhile, his government brutally suppressed all opposition in gross violation of human rights.
- It seemed that everyone had either fled or already hurried down to the lower levels to suppress the uprising.
- These robber barons operate in Central America, where workers' rights are savagely suppressed.
- Instead they are letting these kinds of groups become popular and then trying to suppress them by stamping on democracy and freedom of speech.
- If they do, people will start protests, and brutal conservatives will savagely suppress them.
- Internal division must be suppressed in order to achieve electoral victory.
- Since then opposition rallies and other public events have been suppressed and their organisers arrested.
- This is a step to bind the working class, sweep aside any right won in the past with its own strength and suppress any uprising if it occurs.
- Between the years 1892 and 1894, the Fasci was forcibly suppressed by the government and ordered to disband.
- This sparked a series of student demonstrations that were savagely suppressed, killing over 100.
- Never once does he threaten to overpower or suppress them.
- A week-long state of emergency was declared, and the protests were forcibly suppressed with considerable loss of life.
- The authorities forcibly suppressed the demonstration.
- The Germans did as they pleased, suppressing opponents and arresting anyone who spoke out against them.
- The Bohemian rebellion was ruthlessly suppressed in 1620 and Bohemia went through a decade of decline.
- In 1947, with French prestige at low ebb, a nationalist uprising was suppressed after several months of bitter fighting.
- They also created a secret police force that was used to break strikes, arrest workers and suppress working class freedom and democracy.
Synonyms
subdue, defeat, conquer, vanquish, triumph over, repress, crush, quell, quash, squash, stamp out, overpower, extinguish, put down, put out, crack down on, clamp down on, cow, drive underground
end, put an end to, stop, discontinue, terminate, halt, arrest
1. 1.1 Prevent the development, action, or expression of (a feeling, impulse, idea, etc.); restrain.
  she could not suppress a rising panic
  Example sentencesExamples
  Whether anger is triggered by external events such as traffic jams, or by internal worrying, researchers are still unsure if it's healthier to express or suppress the emotion.
  When fear is high, morality and reason are suppressed in favour of survival.
  Aimée was immediately suspicious but suppressed the feeling.
  Deanna tried to suppress what looked like a smirk at this point.
  Nicholas smiled and tried to suppress his feeling of joy.
  People who suffer emotional distress can turn to food to suppress their feelings, only exacerbating the problem.
  Twitching, I barely suppressed the urge to scowl.
  I fear that she is suppressing her feelings and that she'll experience some sort of backlash in time to come.
  Dani bit her lip, trying to suppress her feelings of desire.
  During the first, some were asked to express feelings of anger and others were asked to suppress those feelings.
  This book is here to try and help you figure out ways to suppress the feelings of depression following someone's death.
  In other words, nightmares occur when dreams fail to blunt the body's emotional response, whereas successful dreaming controls and suppresses the feeling in dreams and protects the continuity of sleep.
  For three years, she had tried to subdue and suppress the aching questions and pleas of her heart and soul.
  What would you suggest I do to suppress these unwanted feelings without the use of pills or alcohol?
  There was a small ounce of jealousy that erupted in the pit of her stomach before she forcibly suppressed it.
  I'm a very ordinary human and can't suppress my feelings of love however hard I try.
  Initiative on the part of individual soldiers was suppressed in favour of unquestioning compliance with instructions.
  He couldn't suppress a shudder and curled up like a cat on the floor.
  In that way they hoped to suppress what they thought were his poisonous ideas.
  So is it healthier to express or suppress your feelings?
  Synonyms
  conceal, restrain, stifle, smother, bottle up, keep a rein on, hold back, keep back, fight back, choke back, control, keep under control, check, keep in check, curb, contain, bridle, inhibit, put a lid on, deaden, muffle
2. 1.2 Prevent the dissemination of (information)
  the report had been suppressed
  Example sentencesExamples
  Instead of promoting justice in the case, his reaction, along with a group of newspaper editors, has been to suppress information about the case.
  Later on, this information was suppressed or ignored.
  The central planning model - one case, one court, one set of rules, one settlement price for all involved - suppresses information that is vital to accurate resolution.
  The Pakistani authorities have reportedly suppressed this information and not shared it with the US.
  Regulators suppressed the negative information on the grounds that it might scare families and physicians away from the drugs, according to testimony by drug company executives.
  The Minister is not suppressing the information.
  The police suppressed information about the ritual aspect, to spare the children the publicity.
  They've also managed to suppress information about much of their activities.
  The government, however, suppressed the information.
  Until last month, the federal statistics department, responding to pressure from Inuit organizations, took unusual steps to suppress their own information.
  The networks could fight the politicians on First Amendment principles, arguing that it's insane to suppress newsworthy information.
  Well, when we have what is quite clearly an alliance between the government and the press, and information is wilfully suppressed, then we are no better off than a country under a dictatorship.
  Of course, they look for information that they want to hear and they try to disprove or suppress information they don't want to hear.
  For example, lead pigment manufacturers were knowledgeable about the hazards of lead, and suppressed the information, just as asbestos manufacturers did.
  Until the beginning of this year AIDS was merely ignored or information was actively suppressed.
  I myself am not aware of how it happened - for unknown reasons, this information was suppressed before it was allowed into the open.
  You've ceased to try to deal with the issues, and moved into attempts to suppress information to prevent others from even being exposed to the issues.
  The freedom of the press is preventing government from suppressing the news further.
  With few exceptions, the mass media suppresses all information about the entire topic.
  She continues to suppress information about the first trial to this day.
  Synonyms
  censor, redact, keep secret, conceal, hide, keep hidden, hush up, gag, keep silent about, withhold, cover up, smother, stifle, muzzle, ban, not disclose, not breathe a word of
  mute, proscribe, outlaw, sweep under the carpet
3. 1.3 Prevent or inhibit (a process or reaction)
  use of the drug suppressed the immune response
  Example sentencesExamples
  Some medications can suppress allergic reactions so that the skin testing can't be performed.
  Wiping with a moist cloth removes over 90 percent of the allergen, and keeping the relative humidity in the house below 50 percent greatly suppresses the growth of dust mites.
  Oral contraceptives are sometimes used for 1-2 months to suppress ovarian function and prevent further cyst formation.
  Insulin resistance affects the disposal of glucose in muscle tissue and suppresses the output of hepatic glucose.
  Chemotherapy treatments suppress the making of various blood cells.
  By using drugs to suppress the function of the ovaries, researchers think the ovaries could be temporarily shut down during cancer treatment.
  Most patients who have a less than perfectly matched donor will receive anti-thymocyte globulin, which is a medicine that suppresses the graft-versus-host reaction.
  The authors conclude that adrenal function is commonly suppressed immediately following conventional short-term therapy with glucocorticoids.
  Currently, people with severe uveitis must take steroids or other drugs that suppress the immune system to control the inflammation.
  If the arrest is dependent upon recombination, then preventing recombination should suppress the meiotic progression defect.
  Their research is bringing to light a potentially new class of genes that can suppress the growth of tumors.
  This is a particular concern because you are on immunosuppressant drugs, which suppress your immune system's ability to fight normal infections.
  In contrast, PKC inhibition did not suppress the growth of normal mast cells.
  Endogenous antimicrobial peptides can suppress bacterial growth for 3 to 6 hours.
  Current therapies for interstitial lung diseases, which commonly end up causing lung fibrosis, aim only at suppressing the inflammatory process.
  Your drug regimen will include immunosuppressants - drugs that suppress the activity of your immune system.
  This includes people with cancer, with organ transplants, or undergoing radiation therapy or treatment with drugs that suppress the immune system.
  To suppress the effects of iron and manganese, 5 ml of triethanolamine were added.
  The radiation treatment destroys the tumor cells and suppresses the function of the stem cells in preparation for the transplant.
  It was thought that polymorphism between tandemly repeated genes suppresses recombination, thereby preventing sequence homogenization of the gene family.
4. 1.4 Partly or wholly eliminate (electrical interference).
  Example sentencesExamples
  Due to such a constitution, the generation of the interference light can be suppressed.
  Spark plug wires that suppress electro-magnetic interference are a necessity in our electronics-rich race cars, but these wires can degrade over time.
  The narrowband interference is then suppressed in the signal combiner prior to application to the standard cross correlation process.
  The negative feedback circuit suppresses variations in gate voltage of the output MOS transistor by the feedback loop.
  Crosstalk from synchronizing signals is suppressed by filters.
5. 1.5Psychoanalysis Consciously inhibit (an unpleasant idea or memory) to avoid considering it.
  Example sentencesExamples
  She stepped into the scalding water of the tub and sank down into her array of bubbles, suppressing the memories of the accident and focusing all her energy on how she was going to convince Melanie she didn't want to try out for the dance team.
  In addition, the researchers found that the more subjects activated their frontal cortex during the experiment, the better they were at suppressing unwanted memories.
  As he told me the story, he kept on losing track of where he was, as if he has been suppressing these memories for so long that his brain just automatically derails any consideration of what happened.
  She turned away from the window, suppressing the oh-so-clear memory of the fearful apparition, and walked slowly down the gallery.
  After his memories were suppressed, he was allowed free access into his subconscious.

Derivatives

suppressible

adjective səˈprɛsɪblsəˈprɛsəb(ə)l

Such suppressible alleles appear to be intrinsically weak, with a low level of read-through that is enhanced when translation termination is disrupted.
Example sentencesExamples
- Recessive suppressible Mutator alleles are usually caused by insertions in upstream regions, but interestingly, the tha1-m1 mutation is caused by a Mu1 insertion in an intron.
- Autumn awoke the next morning with a feeling of barely suppressible joy.
- Her head suddenly echoed with pain, radiating from her temple; however, it was suppressible.
- In contrast with previous findings, our studies suggest that the a1-mum2 mutant phenotype is also suppressible in the aleurone, although this suppression takes more than one generation after the removal of MuDR function.

suppressive

adjective səˈprɛsɪvsəˈprɛsɪv

Bambang also said that enactment of the police bill could also become an entry point to the new authoritarian system, as the president could freely utilize the police who are now armed with such a suppressive mechanism.
Example sentencesExamples
- The obvious need was for suppressive counter-battery artillery fire and more infantry support weapons such as mortars and grenades.
- In the close battle, armoured forces and artillery are likely to remain extremely useful in applying suppressive fire to support troops in action.
- When suppressive security forces tried to disperse the crowd, people resisted and attacked vehicles belonging to the security forces, breaking their windshields.
- He stressed that the reversion to deflation was a normal phenomenon under the initial stage of the growing and recovering economy, which exerts a suppressive effect on the CPI.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin suppress- 'pressed down', from the verb supprimere, from sub- 'down' + premere 'to press'.

Rhymes

acquiesce, address, assess, Bess, bless, bouillabaisse, caress, cess, chess, coalesce, compress, confess, convalesce, cress, deliquesce, digress, dress, duchesse, duress, effervesce, effloresce, evanesce, excess, express, fess, finesse, fluoresce, guess, Hesse, impress, incandesce, intumesce, jess, largesse, less, manageress, mess, ness, noblesse, obsess, oppress, outguess, phosphoresce, politesse, possess, press, priestess, princess, process, profess, progress, prophetess, regress, retrogress, stress, success, tendresse, top-dress, transgress, tress, tristesse, underdress, vicomtesse, yes

Definition of suppress in US English:

suppress

verbsəˈpressəˈprɛs

[with object]

1Forcibly put an end to.
the uprising was savagely suppressed
Example sentencesExamples
- Never once does he threaten to overpower or suppress them.
- In fact, methods used to suppress the protests and uprisings, and witnessing staff in riot gear, caused ‘particular stress’ to children.
- A week-long state of emergency was declared, and the protests were forcibly suppressed with considerable loss of life.
- This is a step to bind the working class, sweep aside any right won in the past with its own strength and suppress any uprising if it occurs.
- Since then opposition rallies and other public events have been suppressed and their organisers arrested.
- This sparked a series of student demonstrations that were savagely suppressed, killing over 100.
- The Bohemian rebellion was ruthlessly suppressed in 1620 and Bohemia went through a decade of decline.
- It seemed that everyone had either fled or already hurried down to the lower levels to suppress the uprising.
- Between the years 1892 and 1894, the Fasci was forcibly suppressed by the government and ordered to disband.
- These uprisings were ruthlessly suppressed, as were the Levellers in England after the Civil War.
- The authorities forcibly suppressed the demonstration.
- They also created a secret police force that was used to break strikes, arrest workers and suppress working class freedom and democracy.
- Meanwhile, his government brutally suppressed all opposition in gross violation of human rights.
- The army suppressed the uprising, killing ten thousand people.
- Instead they are letting these kinds of groups become popular and then trying to suppress them by stamping on democracy and freedom of speech.
- These robber barons operate in Central America, where workers' rights are savagely suppressed.
- The Germans did as they pleased, suppressing opponents and arresting anyone who spoke out against them.
- Internal division must be suppressed in order to achieve electoral victory.
- In 1947, with French prestige at low ebb, a nationalist uprising was suppressed after several months of bitter fighting.
- If they do, people will start protests, and brutal conservatives will savagely suppress them.
Synonyms
subdue, defeat, conquer, vanquish, triumph over, repress, crush, quell, quash, squash, stamp out, overpower, extinguish, put down, put out, crack down on, clamp down on, cow, drive underground
1. 1.1 Prevent the development, action, or expression of (a feeling, impulse, idea, etc.); restrain.
  she could not suppress a rising panic
  Example sentencesExamples
  So is it healthier to express or suppress your feelings?
  For three years, she had tried to subdue and suppress the aching questions and pleas of her heart and soul.
  In that way they hoped to suppress what they thought were his poisonous ideas.
  People who suffer emotional distress can turn to food to suppress their feelings, only exacerbating the problem.
  Twitching, I barely suppressed the urge to scowl.
  Dani bit her lip, trying to suppress her feelings of desire.
  Initiative on the part of individual soldiers was suppressed in favour of unquestioning compliance with instructions.
  Deanna tried to suppress what looked like a smirk at this point.
  He couldn't suppress a shudder and curled up like a cat on the floor.
  When fear is high, morality and reason are suppressed in favour of survival.
  Nicholas smiled and tried to suppress his feeling of joy.
  This book is here to try and help you figure out ways to suppress the feelings of depression following someone's death.
  Aimée was immediately suspicious but suppressed the feeling.
  During the first, some were asked to express feelings of anger and others were asked to suppress those feelings.
  In other words, nightmares occur when dreams fail to blunt the body's emotional response, whereas successful dreaming controls and suppresses the feeling in dreams and protects the continuity of sleep.
  I'm a very ordinary human and can't suppress my feelings of love however hard I try.
  What would you suggest I do to suppress these unwanted feelings without the use of pills or alcohol?
  Whether anger is triggered by external events such as traffic jams, or by internal worrying, researchers are still unsure if it's healthier to express or suppress the emotion.
  I fear that she is suppressing her feelings and that she'll experience some sort of backlash in time to come.
  There was a small ounce of jealousy that erupted in the pit of her stomach before she forcibly suppressed it.
  Synonyms
  conceal, restrain, stifle, smother, bottle up, keep a rein on, hold back, keep back, fight back, choke back, control, keep under control, check, keep in check, curb, contain, bridle, inhibit, put a lid on, deaden, muffle
2. 1.2 Prevent the dissemination of (information)
  the report had been suppressed
  Example sentencesExamples
  The Pakistani authorities have reportedly suppressed this information and not shared it with the US.
  You've ceased to try to deal with the issues, and moved into attempts to suppress information to prevent others from even being exposed to the issues.
  Later on, this information was suppressed or ignored.
  Well, when we have what is quite clearly an alliance between the government and the press, and information is wilfully suppressed, then we are no better off than a country under a dictatorship.
  The networks could fight the politicians on First Amendment principles, arguing that it's insane to suppress newsworthy information.
  Regulators suppressed the negative information on the grounds that it might scare families and physicians away from the drugs, according to testimony by drug company executives.
  They've also managed to suppress information about much of their activities.
  For example, lead pigment manufacturers were knowledgeable about the hazards of lead, and suppressed the information, just as asbestos manufacturers did.
  Instead of promoting justice in the case, his reaction, along with a group of newspaper editors, has been to suppress information about the case.
  The Minister is not suppressing the information.
  The police suppressed information about the ritual aspect, to spare the children the publicity.
  Of course, they look for information that they want to hear and they try to disprove or suppress information they don't want to hear.
  With few exceptions, the mass media suppresses all information about the entire topic.
  She continues to suppress information about the first trial to this day.
  Until the beginning of this year AIDS was merely ignored or information was actively suppressed.
  The freedom of the press is preventing government from suppressing the news further.
  I myself am not aware of how it happened - for unknown reasons, this information was suppressed before it was allowed into the open.
  The government, however, suppressed the information.
  Until last month, the federal statistics department, responding to pressure from Inuit organizations, took unusual steps to suppress their own information.
  The central planning model - one case, one court, one set of rules, one settlement price for all involved - suppresses information that is vital to accurate resolution.
  Synonyms
  censor, redact, keep secret, conceal, hide, keep hidden, hush up, gag, keep silent about, withhold, cover up, smother, stifle, muzzle, ban, not disclose, not breathe a word of
3. 1.3 Prevent or inhibit (a process or reaction)
  use of the drug suppressed the immune response
  Example sentencesExamples
  It was thought that polymorphism between tandemly repeated genes suppresses recombination, thereby preventing sequence homogenization of the gene family.
  Currently, people with severe uveitis must take steroids or other drugs that suppress the immune system to control the inflammation.
  The radiation treatment destroys the tumor cells and suppresses the function of the stem cells in preparation for the transplant.
  Insulin resistance affects the disposal of glucose in muscle tissue and suppresses the output of hepatic glucose.
  By using drugs to suppress the function of the ovaries, researchers think the ovaries could be temporarily shut down during cancer treatment.
  Their research is bringing to light a potentially new class of genes that can suppress the growth of tumors.
  If the arrest is dependent upon recombination, then preventing recombination should suppress the meiotic progression defect.
  This includes people with cancer, with organ transplants, or undergoing radiation therapy or treatment with drugs that suppress the immune system.
  This is a particular concern because you are on immunosuppressant drugs, which suppress your immune system's ability to fight normal infections.
  In contrast, PKC inhibition did not suppress the growth of normal mast cells.
  The authors conclude that adrenal function is commonly suppressed immediately following conventional short-term therapy with glucocorticoids.
  Some medications can suppress allergic reactions so that the skin testing can't be performed.
  To suppress the effects of iron and manganese, 5 ml of triethanolamine were added.
  Chemotherapy treatments suppress the making of various blood cells.
  Most patients who have a less than perfectly matched donor will receive anti-thymocyte globulin, which is a medicine that suppresses the graft-versus-host reaction.
  Wiping with a moist cloth removes over 90 percent of the allergen, and keeping the relative humidity in the house below 50 percent greatly suppresses the growth of dust mites.
  Oral contraceptives are sometimes used for 1-2 months to suppress ovarian function and prevent further cyst formation.
  Your drug regimen will include immunosuppressants - drugs that suppress the activity of your immune system.
  Current therapies for interstitial lung diseases, which commonly end up causing lung fibrosis, aim only at suppressing the inflammatory process.
  Endogenous antimicrobial peptides can suppress bacterial growth for 3 to 6 hours.
4. 1.4 Partly or wholly eliminate (electrical interference).
  Example sentencesExamples
  The negative feedback circuit suppresses variations in gate voltage of the output MOS transistor by the feedback loop.
  Spark plug wires that suppress electro-magnetic interference are a necessity in our electronics-rich race cars, but these wires can degrade over time.
  Due to such a constitution, the generation of the interference light can be suppressed.
  Crosstalk from synchronizing signals is suppressed by filters.
  The narrowband interference is then suppressed in the signal combiner prior to application to the standard cross correlation process.
5. 1.5Psychoanalysis Consciously inhibit (an unpleasant idea or memory) to avoid considering it.
  Example sentencesExamples
  She stepped into the scalding water of the tub and sank down into her array of bubbles, suppressing the memories of the accident and focusing all her energy on how she was going to convince Melanie she didn't want to try out for the dance team.
  In addition, the researchers found that the more subjects activated their frontal cortex during the experiment, the better they were at suppressing unwanted memories.
  She turned away from the window, suppressing the oh-so-clear memory of the fearful apparition, and walked slowly down the gallery.
  As he told me the story, he kept on losing track of where he was, as if he has been suppressing these memories for so long that his brain just automatically derails any consideration of what happened.
  After his memories were suppressed, he was allowed free access into his subconscious.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin suppress- ‘pressed down’, from the verb supprimere, from sub- ‘down’ + premere ‘to press’.

单词	suppress
释义	Definition of suppress in English: suppress verb səˈprɛssəˈprɛs [with object] 1Forcibly put an end to. the rising was savagely suppressed Example sentencesExamples These uprisings were ruthlessly suppressed, as were the Levellers in England after the Civil War. The army suppressed the uprising, killing ten thousand people. In fact, methods used to suppress the protests and uprisings, and witnessing staff in riot gear, caused ‘particular stress’ to children. Meanwhile, his government brutally suppressed all opposition in gross violation of human rights. It seemed that everyone had either fled or already hurried down to the lower levels to suppress the uprising. These robber barons operate in Central America, where workers' rights are savagely suppressed. Instead they are letting these kinds of groups become popular and then trying to suppress them by stamping on democracy and freedom of speech. If they do, people will start protests, and brutal conservatives will savagely suppress them. Internal division must be suppressed in order to achieve electoral victory. Since then opposition rallies and other public events have been suppressed and their organisers arrested. This is a step to bind the working class, sweep aside any right won in the past with its own strength and suppress any uprising if it occurs. Between the years 1892 and 1894, the Fasci was forcibly suppressed by the government and ordered to disband. This sparked a series of student demonstrations that were savagely suppressed, killing over 100. Never once does he threaten to overpower or suppress them. A week-long state of emergency was declared, and the protests were forcibly suppressed with considerable loss of life. The authorities forcibly suppressed the demonstration. The Germans did as they pleased, suppressing opponents and arresting anyone who spoke out against them. The Bohemian rebellion was ruthlessly suppressed in 1620 and Bohemia went through a decade of decline. In 1947, with French prestige at low ebb, a nationalist uprising was suppressed after several months of bitter fighting. They also created a secret police force that was used to break strikes, arrest workers and suppress working class freedom and democracy. Synonyms subdue, defeat, conquer, vanquish, triumph over, repress, crush, quell, quash, squash, stamp out, overpower, extinguish, put down, put out, crack down on, clamp down on, cow, drive underground end, put an end to, stop, discontinue, terminate, halt, arrest 1.1 Prevent the development, action, or expression of (a feeling, impulse, idea, etc.); restrain. she could not suppress a rising panic Example sentencesExamples Whether anger is triggered by external events such as traffic jams, or by internal worrying, researchers are still unsure if it's healthier to express or suppress the emotion. When fear is high, morality and reason are suppressed in favour of survival. Aimée was immediately suspicious but suppressed the feeling. Deanna tried to suppress what looked like a smirk at this point. Nicholas smiled and tried to suppress his feeling of joy. People who suffer emotional distress can turn to food to suppress their feelings, only exacerbating the problem. Twitching, I barely suppressed the urge to scowl. I fear that she is suppressing her feelings and that she'll experience some sort of backlash in time to come. Dani bit her lip, trying to suppress her feelings of desire. During the first, some were asked to express feelings of anger and others were asked to suppress those feelings. This book is here to try and help you figure out ways to suppress the feelings of depression following someone's death. In other words, nightmares occur when dreams fail to blunt the body's emotional response, whereas successful dreaming controls and suppresses the feeling in dreams and protects the continuity of sleep. For three years, she had tried to subdue and suppress the aching questions and pleas of her heart and soul. What would you suggest I do to suppress these unwanted feelings without the use of pills or alcohol? There was a small ounce of jealousy that erupted in the pit of her stomach before she forcibly suppressed it. I'm a very ordinary human and can't suppress my feelings of love however hard I try. Initiative on the part of individual soldiers was suppressed in favour of unquestioning compliance with instructions. He couldn't suppress a shudder and curled up like a cat on the floor. In that way they hoped to suppress what they thought were his poisonous ideas. So is it healthier to express or suppress your feelings? Synonyms conceal, restrain, stifle, smother, bottle up, keep a rein on, hold back, keep back, fight back, choke back, control, keep under control, check, keep in check, curb, contain, bridle, inhibit, put a lid on, deaden, muffle 1.2 Prevent the dissemination of (information) the report had been suppressed Example sentencesExamples Instead of promoting justice in the case, his reaction, along with a group of newspaper editors, has been to suppress information about the case. Later on, this information was suppressed or ignored. The central planning model - one case, one court, one set of rules, one settlement price for all involved - suppresses information that is vital to accurate resolution. The Pakistani authorities have reportedly suppressed this information and not shared it with the US. Regulators suppressed the negative information on the grounds that it might scare families and physicians away from the drugs, according to testimony by drug company executives. The Minister is not suppressing the information. The police suppressed information about the ritual aspect, to spare the children the publicity. They've also managed to suppress information about much of their activities. The government, however, suppressed the information. Until last month, the federal statistics department, responding to pressure from Inuit organizations, took unusual steps to suppress their own information. The networks could fight the politicians on First Amendment principles, arguing that it's insane to suppress newsworthy information. Well, when we have what is quite clearly an alliance between the government and the press, and information is wilfully suppressed, then we are no better off than a country under a dictatorship. Of course, they look for information that they want to hear and they try to disprove or suppress information they don't want to hear. For example, lead pigment manufacturers were knowledgeable about the hazards of lead, and suppressed the information, just as asbestos manufacturers did. Until the beginning of this year AIDS was merely ignored or information was actively suppressed. I myself am not aware of how it happened - for unknown reasons, this information was suppressed before it was allowed into the open. You've ceased to try to deal with the issues, and moved into attempts to suppress information to prevent others from even being exposed to the issues. The freedom of the press is preventing government from suppressing the news further. With few exceptions, the mass media suppresses all information about the entire topic. She continues to suppress information about the first trial to this day. Synonyms censor, redact, keep secret, conceal, hide, keep hidden, hush up, gag, keep silent about, withhold, cover up, smother, stifle, muzzle, ban, not disclose, not breathe a word of mute, proscribe, outlaw, sweep under the carpet 1.3 Prevent or inhibit (a process or reaction) use of the drug suppressed the immune response Example sentencesExamples Some medications can suppress allergic reactions so that the skin testing can't be performed. Wiping with a moist cloth removes over 90 percent of the allergen, and keeping the relative humidity in the house below 50 percent greatly suppresses the growth of dust mites. Oral contraceptives are sometimes used for 1-2 months to suppress ovarian function and prevent further cyst formation. Insulin resistance affects the disposal of glucose in muscle tissue and suppresses the output of hepatic glucose. Chemotherapy treatments suppress the making of various blood cells. By using drugs to suppress the function of the ovaries, researchers think the ovaries could be temporarily shut down during cancer treatment. Most patients who have a less than perfectly matched donor will receive anti-thymocyte globulin, which is a medicine that suppresses the graft-versus-host reaction. The authors conclude that adrenal function is commonly suppressed immediately following conventional short-term therapy with glucocorticoids. Currently, people with severe uveitis must take steroids or other drugs that suppress the immune system to control the inflammation. If the arrest is dependent upon recombination, then preventing recombination should suppress the meiotic progression defect. Their research is bringing to light a potentially new class of genes that can suppress the growth of tumors. This is a particular concern because you are on immunosuppressant drugs, which suppress your immune system's ability to fight normal infections. In contrast, PKC inhibition did not suppress the growth of normal mast cells. Endogenous antimicrobial peptides can suppress bacterial growth for 3 to 6 hours. Current therapies for interstitial lung diseases, which commonly end up causing lung fibrosis, aim only at suppressing the inflammatory process. Your drug regimen will include immunosuppressants - drugs that suppress the activity of your immune system. This includes people with cancer, with organ transplants, or undergoing radiation therapy or treatment with drugs that suppress the immune system. To suppress the effects of iron and manganese, 5 ml of triethanolamine were added. The radiation treatment destroys the tumor cells and suppresses the function of the stem cells in preparation for the transplant. It was thought that polymorphism between tandemly repeated genes suppresses recombination, thereby preventing sequence homogenization of the gene family. 1.4 Partly or wholly eliminate (electrical interference). Example sentencesExamples Due to such a constitution, the generation of the interference light can be suppressed. Spark plug wires that suppress electro-magnetic interference are a necessity in our electronics-rich race cars, but these wires can degrade over time. The narrowband interference is then suppressed in the signal combiner prior to application to the standard cross correlation process. The negative feedback circuit suppresses variations in gate voltage of the output MOS transistor by the feedback loop. Crosstalk from synchronizing signals is suppressed by filters. 1.5Psychoanalysis Consciously inhibit (an unpleasant idea or memory) to avoid considering it. Example sentencesExamples She stepped into the scalding water of the tub and sank down into her array of bubbles, suppressing the memories of the accident and focusing all her energy on how she was going to convince Melanie she didn't want to try out for the dance team. In addition, the researchers found that the more subjects activated their frontal cortex during the experiment, the better they were at suppressing unwanted memories. As he told me the story, he kept on losing track of where he was, as if he has been suppressing these memories for so long that his brain just automatically derails any consideration of what happened. She turned away from the window, suppressing the oh-so-clear memory of the fearful apparition, and walked slowly down the gallery. After his memories were suppressed, he was allowed free access into his subconscious. Derivatives suppressible adjective səˈprɛsɪblsəˈprɛsəb(ə)l Such suppressible alleles appear to be intrinsically weak, with a low level of read-through that is enhanced when translation termination is disrupted. Example sentencesExamples Recessive suppressible Mutator alleles are usually caused by insertions in upstream regions, but interestingly, the tha1-m1 mutation is caused by a Mu1 insertion in an intron. Autumn awoke the next morning with a feeling of barely suppressible joy. Her head suddenly echoed with pain, radiating from her temple; however, it was suppressible. In contrast with previous findings, our studies suggest that the a1-mum2 mutant phenotype is also suppressible in the aleurone, although this suppression takes more than one generation after the removal of MuDR function. suppressive adjective səˈprɛsɪvsəˈprɛsɪv Bambang also said that enactment of the police bill could also become an entry point to the new authoritarian system, as the president could freely utilize the police who are now armed with such a suppressive mechanism. Example sentencesExamples The obvious need was for suppressive counter-battery artillery fire and more infantry support weapons such as mortars and grenades. In the close battle, armoured forces and artillery are likely to remain extremely useful in applying suppressive fire to support troops in action. When suppressive security forces tried to disperse the crowd, people resisted and attacked vehicles belonging to the security forces, breaking their windshields. He stressed that the reversion to deflation was a normal phenomenon under the initial stage of the growing and recovering economy, which exerts a suppressive effect on the CPI. Origin Late Middle English: from Latin suppress- 'pressed down', from the verb supprimere, from sub- 'down' + premere 'to press'. Rhymes acquiesce, address, assess, Bess, bless, bouillabaisse, caress, cess, chess, coalesce, compress, confess, convalesce, cress, deliquesce, digress, dress, duchesse, duress, effervesce, effloresce, evanesce, excess, express, fess, finesse, fluoresce, guess, Hesse, impress, incandesce, intumesce, jess, largesse, less, manageress, mess, ness, noblesse, obsess, oppress, outguess, phosphoresce, politesse, possess, press, priestess, princess, process, profess, progress, prophetess, regress, retrogress, stress, success, tendresse, top-dress, transgress, tress, tristesse, underdress, vicomtesse, yes Definition of suppress in US English: suppress verbsəˈpressəˈprɛs [with object] 1Forcibly put an end to. the uprising was savagely suppressed Example sentencesExamples Never once does he threaten to overpower or suppress them. In fact, methods used to suppress the protests and uprisings, and witnessing staff in riot gear, caused ‘particular stress’ to children. A week-long state of emergency was declared, and the protests were forcibly suppressed with considerable loss of life. This is a step to bind the working class, sweep aside any right won in the past with its own strength and suppress any uprising if it occurs. Since then opposition rallies and other public events have been suppressed and their organisers arrested. This sparked a series of student demonstrations that were savagely suppressed, killing over 100. The Bohemian rebellion was ruthlessly suppressed in 1620 and Bohemia went through a decade of decline. It seemed that everyone had either fled or already hurried down to the lower levels to suppress the uprising. Between the years 1892 and 1894, the Fasci was forcibly suppressed by the government and ordered to disband. These uprisings were ruthlessly suppressed, as were the Levellers in England after the Civil War. The authorities forcibly suppressed the demonstration. They also created a secret police force that was used to break strikes, arrest workers and suppress working class freedom and democracy. Meanwhile, his government brutally suppressed all opposition in gross violation of human rights. The army suppressed the uprising, killing ten thousand people. Instead they are letting these kinds of groups become popular and then trying to suppress them by stamping on democracy and freedom of speech. These robber barons operate in Central America, where workers' rights are savagely suppressed. The Germans did as they pleased, suppressing opponents and arresting anyone who spoke out against them. Internal division must be suppressed in order to achieve electoral victory. In 1947, with French prestige at low ebb, a nationalist uprising was suppressed after several months of bitter fighting. If they do, people will start protests, and brutal conservatives will savagely suppress them. Synonyms subdue, defeat, conquer, vanquish, triumph over, repress, crush, quell, quash, squash, stamp out, overpower, extinguish, put down, put out, crack down on, clamp down on, cow, drive underground 1.1 Prevent the development, action, or expression of (a feeling, impulse, idea, etc.); restrain. she could not suppress a rising panic Example sentencesExamples So is it healthier to express or suppress your feelings? For three years, she had tried to subdue and suppress the aching questions and pleas of her heart and soul. In that way they hoped to suppress what they thought were his poisonous ideas. People who suffer emotional distress can turn to food to suppress their feelings, only exacerbating the problem. Twitching, I barely suppressed the urge to scowl. Dani bit her lip, trying to suppress her feelings of desire. Initiative on the part of individual soldiers was suppressed in favour of unquestioning compliance with instructions. Deanna tried to suppress what looked like a smirk at this point. He couldn't suppress a shudder and curled up like a cat on the floor. When fear is high, morality and reason are suppressed in favour of survival. Nicholas smiled and tried to suppress his feeling of joy. This book is here to try and help you figure out ways to suppress the feelings of depression following someone's death. Aimée was immediately suspicious but suppressed the feeling. During the first, some were asked to express feelings of anger and others were asked to suppress those feelings. In other words, nightmares occur when dreams fail to blunt the body's emotional response, whereas successful dreaming controls and suppresses the feeling in dreams and protects the continuity of sleep. I'm a very ordinary human and can't suppress my feelings of love however hard I try. What would you suggest I do to suppress these unwanted feelings without the use of pills or alcohol? Whether anger is triggered by external events such as traffic jams, or by internal worrying, researchers are still unsure if it's healthier to express or suppress the emotion. I fear that she is suppressing her feelings and that she'll experience some sort of backlash in time to come. There was a small ounce of jealousy that erupted in the pit of her stomach before she forcibly suppressed it. Synonyms conceal, restrain, stifle, smother, bottle up, keep a rein on, hold back, keep back, fight back, choke back, control, keep under control, check, keep in check, curb, contain, bridle, inhibit, put a lid on, deaden, muffle 1.2 Prevent the dissemination of (information) the report had been suppressed Example sentencesExamples The Pakistani authorities have reportedly suppressed this information and not shared it with the US. You've ceased to try to deal with the issues, and moved into attempts to suppress information to prevent others from even being exposed to the issues. Later on, this information was suppressed or ignored. Well, when we have what is quite clearly an alliance between the government and the press, and information is wilfully suppressed, then we are no better off than a country under a dictatorship. The networks could fight the politicians on First Amendment principles, arguing that it's insane to suppress newsworthy information. Regulators suppressed the negative information on the grounds that it might scare families and physicians away from the drugs, according to testimony by drug company executives. They've also managed to suppress information about much of their activities. For example, lead pigment manufacturers were knowledgeable about the hazards of lead, and suppressed the information, just as asbestos manufacturers did. Instead of promoting justice in the case, his reaction, along with a group of newspaper editors, has been to suppress information about the case. The Minister is not suppressing the information. The police suppressed information about the ritual aspect, to spare the children the publicity. Of course, they look for information that they want to hear and they try to disprove or suppress information they don't want to hear. With few exceptions, the mass media suppresses all information about the entire topic. She continues to suppress information about the first trial to this day. Until the beginning of this year AIDS was merely ignored or information was actively suppressed. The freedom of the press is preventing government from suppressing the news further. I myself am not aware of how it happened - for unknown reasons, this information was suppressed before it was allowed into the open. The government, however, suppressed the information. Until last month, the federal statistics department, responding to pressure from Inuit organizations, took unusual steps to suppress their own information. The central planning model - one case, one court, one set of rules, one settlement price for all involved - suppresses information that is vital to accurate resolution. Synonyms censor, redact, keep secret, conceal, hide, keep hidden, hush up, gag, keep silent about, withhold, cover up, smother, stifle, muzzle, ban, not disclose, not breathe a word of 1.3 Prevent or inhibit (a process or reaction) use of the drug suppressed the immune response Example sentencesExamples It was thought that polymorphism between tandemly repeated genes suppresses recombination, thereby preventing sequence homogenization of the gene family. Currently, people with severe uveitis must take steroids or other drugs that suppress the immune system to control the inflammation. The radiation treatment destroys the tumor cells and suppresses the function of the stem cells in preparation for the transplant. Insulin resistance affects the disposal of glucose in muscle tissue and suppresses the output of hepatic glucose. By using drugs to suppress the function of the ovaries, researchers think the ovaries could be temporarily shut down during cancer treatment. Their research is bringing to light a potentially new class of genes that can suppress the growth of tumors. If the arrest is dependent upon recombination, then preventing recombination should suppress the meiotic progression defect. This includes people with cancer, with organ transplants, or undergoing radiation therapy or treatment with drugs that suppress the immune system. This is a particular concern because you are on immunosuppressant drugs, which suppress your immune system's ability to fight normal infections. In contrast, PKC inhibition did not suppress the growth of normal mast cells. The authors conclude that adrenal function is commonly suppressed immediately following conventional short-term therapy with glucocorticoids. Some medications can suppress allergic reactions so that the skin testing can't be performed. To suppress the effects of iron and manganese, 5 ml of triethanolamine were added. Chemotherapy treatments suppress the making of various blood cells. Most patients who have a less than perfectly matched donor will receive anti-thymocyte globulin, which is a medicine that suppresses the graft-versus-host reaction. Wiping with a moist cloth removes over 90 percent of the allergen, and keeping the relative humidity in the house below 50 percent greatly suppresses the growth of dust mites. Oral contraceptives are sometimes used for 1-2 months to suppress ovarian function and prevent further cyst formation. Your drug regimen will include immunosuppressants - drugs that suppress the activity of your immune system. Current therapies for interstitial lung diseases, which commonly end up causing lung fibrosis, aim only at suppressing the inflammatory process. Endogenous antimicrobial peptides can suppress bacterial growth for 3 to 6 hours. 1.4 Partly or wholly eliminate (electrical interference). Example sentencesExamples The negative feedback circuit suppresses variations in gate voltage of the output MOS transistor by the feedback loop. Spark plug wires that suppress electro-magnetic interference are a necessity in our electronics-rich race cars, but these wires can degrade over time. Due to such a constitution, the generation of the interference light can be suppressed. Crosstalk from synchronizing signals is suppressed by filters. The narrowband interference is then suppressed in the signal combiner prior to application to the standard cross correlation process. 1.5Psychoanalysis Consciously inhibit (an unpleasant idea or memory) to avoid considering it. Example sentencesExamples She stepped into the scalding water of the tub and sank down into her array of bubbles, suppressing the memories of the accident and focusing all her energy on how she was going to convince Melanie she didn't want to try out for the dance team. In addition, the researchers found that the more subjects activated their frontal cortex during the experiment, the better they were at suppressing unwanted memories. She turned away from the window, suppressing the oh-so-clear memory of the fearful apparition, and walked slowly down the gallery. As he told me the story, he kept on losing track of where he was, as if he has been suppressing these memories for so long that his brain just automatically derails any consideration of what happened. After his memories were suppressed, he was allowed free access into his subconscious. Origin Late Middle English: from Latin suppress- ‘pressed down’, from the verb supprimere, from sub- ‘down’ + premere ‘to press’.
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