Dictionary Entry
suppress
suppress is a 8-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To overpower and crush; to subdue; to put down; to quell. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 15 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To overpower and crush; to subdue; to put down; to quell.
- 2transitive verb
To keep in; to restrain from utterance or vent; as, to suppress the voice; to suppress a smile.
- 3transitive verb
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.
- 4transitive verb
To stop; to restrain; to arrest the discharges of; as, to suppress a diarrhea, or a hemorrhage.
- 5verb
reduce the incidence or severity of or stop
"suppress a yawn"
"this drug can suppress the hemorrhage"
- 6verb
to put down by force or authority
"suppress a nascent uprising"
"stamp down on littering"
- 7verb
put out of one's consciousness
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- 8verb
control and refrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior
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- 9verb
come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority
"The government oppresses political activists"
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