Crossword clues for suppressed
suppressed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suppress \Sup*press"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Suppressed; p. pr. & vb. n. Suppressing.] [L. suppressus, p. p. of supprimere to suppress; sub under + premere, pressum, to press. See Sub-, and Press.]
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To overpower and crush; to subdue; to put down; to quell.
Every rebellion, when it is suppressed, doth make the subject weaker, and the prince stronger.
--Sir J. Davies. To keep in; to restrain from utterance or vent; as, to suppress the voice; to suppress a smile.
--Sir W. Scott.-
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.
She suppresses the name, and this keeps him in a pleasing suspense.
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To stop; to restrain; to arrest the discharges of; as, to suppress a diarrhea, or a hemorrhage.
Syn: To repress; restrain; put down; overthrow; overpower; overwhelm; conceal; stifle; stop; smother.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: suppress)
WordNet
adj. kept from public knowledge by various means; [ant: publicized]
manifesting or subjected to suppression; "a suppressed press"
held in check with difficulty; "a smothered cough"; "a stifled yawn"; "a strangled scream"; "suppressed laughter" [syn: smothered, stifled, strangled]
Usage examples of "suppressed".
Either the analysand is phenomenally ignorant of anatomy, especially female anatomy, or he is here hallucinating a manic wish-fantasy born of libido too long suppressed.
Liebreich found examples of retinal hemorrhage in suppressed menstruation, and Sir James Paget says that he has seen a young girl at Moorfields who had a small effusion of blood into the anterior chamber of the eye at the menstrual period, which became absorbed during the intervals of menstruation.
Shareem suppressed an appreciative chuckle at the care in the choice of those words.
Sir Robert Peel gave notice on the 7th of July, that, on the motion for committing the bill, he would move an instruction to the committee to divide it into two bills, that he might have an opportunity of rejecting altogether those parts of the bill which suppressed the Protestant churches of eight hundred and sixty parishes, appropriating their revenues to purposes not immediately in connection with the interests of the established church, and of supporting those provisions in which he could concur.
I suppressed a smile and headed over to Breger, who was continuing to search through the Beemer.
It was not until the seventeenth century that the English colonial administration in Ireland finally suppressed the use of the Brehon Law system.
Owen began to feel like he was bullying a puppy, but ruthlessly suppressed the thought.
The poem was suppressed by GHQ, obviously because the censors remained hypersensitive to any overt expression whatever of Japanese regret at losing the war.
She suppressed a sudden unfair memory of the way Jack had been accustomed to deal with the malefactions of his young.
Every eye suppressed its excitement, for Malemute Kid had given the cue, and the young officer encountered wooden faces on every hand.
Quintal, accompanied by a fair-haired lad named Ellison, and Millward, one of the three for whom Quintal had gone below--all in a state of suppressed excitement.
That Papistry and superstition may be utterly suppressed, according to the intention of the Acts of Parliament, repeated in the 5th Act, Parl.
She looked directly at Mors Planch and once again he suppressed a shiver.
Not until the Plutonic power is so strongly set up that the higher human impulses are suppressed as rebellious, and even the mere appetites are denied, starved, and insulted when they cannot purchase their satisfaction with gold, are the energetic spirits driven to build their lives upon riches.
Revolution, suppressed its abuses, preserved all that was good in it- equality of citizenship and freedom of speech and of the press- and only for that reason did he obtain power.