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.
It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown. Dalai Lama
It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow. Benjamin Franklin
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. Carl Sagan
Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be. Bob Dylan
Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will. Mitt Romney
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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