Definition of Suppress

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Suppress

To overpower and crush; to subdue; to put down; to quell.

To keep in; to restrain from utterance or vent; as, to suppress the voice; to suppress a smile.

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.

To stop; to restrain; to arrest the discharges of; as, to suppress a diarrhea, or a hemorrhage.

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Suppress Quotations

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
Benjamin Franklin

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
Bob Dylan

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
Carl Sagan

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
Frederick Douglass

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
Aleister Crowley

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
Moliere

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
Wole Soyinka

Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.
Anna Quindlen

I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.
Robertson Davies

Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.
Garrett Hardin

Suppress Translations

suppress in Afrikaans is onderdruk
suppress in Dutch is onderdrukken, verdringen, opkroppen
suppress in Finnish is tukehduttaa
suppress in Latin is conculco
suppress in Portuguese is suprima
suppress in Spanish is suprimir

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