Definitions

suppress

[suh-pres] / səˈprɛs /

VERB

restrain, hold in check

Synonyms

STRONGEST

abolish censor conceal contain cover up crack down on crush curb cut off muzzle overcome overthrow put an end to put down quash quell quench repress silence snuff out stamp out stifle subdue withhold

STRONG

annihilate bottle burke check clamp conquer extinguish interrupt muffle overpower shush smother spike squash stop trample

WEAK

beat down bring to naught hold back hold down hold in keep in keep secret put kibosh on put lid on sit on

Antonyms

STRONGEST

aid allow assist build up compliment encourage give in help let go permit praise release sanction start support surrender yield

STRONG

light open

Example Sentences

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The bipartisan Cassidy-Smith and Craig-Roe Suppress Covid-19 Acts, in the Senate and House respectively, also shared this framework.

From Washington Post • Oct. 28, 2020

Hastings’s review deserves a place in the now-classic book by Joanna Russ, How to Suppress Women’s Writing.

From The Guardian • Feb. 6, 2016

An off-world feminist utopia confronts its own destruction in "When It Changed" by Joanna Russ, whose "How to Suppress Women's Writing" was a touchstone for second-wave feminists.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2015

Suppress your instinctive impatience, quiet the snarky voice in your head and allow yourself to recall, or perhaps to discover, the deep pleasures of sincerity.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2011

Suppress the consciousness as she would in her maiden breast, had she not been urged hither by an irresistible impulse?

From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Zangwill, Israel

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