What is "suppresses"

Usage examples of "suppresses".

Socrates, though he affectedly disclaims all hopes of favor or fame, composes an elaborate panegyric on the emperor, and cautiously suppresses the merits of his sister, (l.

Between him and the legislative body it interposes nothing but sources of conflict, and suppresses all means of concord.

Like a prudent rhetorician, he suppresses the legal privilege of hiring champions.

Silent and pale, he suppresses his rage, and,[167] losing his balance, closing his eyes, he plunges headlong on the path of murder: cost what it will, the miscreants must perish and without loss of time.

It is owing to this that, in the social body as in the organized body, the terminal act presupposes many others anterior to and co-ordinate with it, a series of elaborations, a succession of metamorphoses, one elimination and transportation after another, mostly invisible and obscure, but all indispensable, and all of them carried out by infinitely delicate organs, so delicate that, under the slightest pressure, they get out of order, so dependent on each other that an injury to one affects the operations of the rest, and thus suppresses or perverts the final result to which, nearly or remotely, they all contribute.

It is thus that the Assembly suppresses and compensates magisterial offices to the amount of four hundred and fifty millions.

Not the mechanics of it— the way high Skip suppresses most of your normal appearances in the quantized Universe and lets you cross into parallel timelines.

Cerise admits a silent interest, but suppresses all hint of it, because, after all, this may be a different kind of challenge.

And even if she found one, she thinks, she couldn’t reach it, not lying flat like this, trapped by the illusion that surrounds her… She suppresses the thought, shifts her head again.