What is "suppressive"

Usage examples of "suppressive".

Three tanks maneuvered the best they could to put themselves between the survivors and the Iraqis, spraying suppressive fire with their main guns and machine guns.

In other words, their heterarchical values are held in place by hierarchical judgments (most of which I thoroughly agree with), and they might as well come clean and join the rest of us in trying to consciously understand all that, and not simply bury their tracks in parasitic and denunciatory and suppressive rhetoric.

If we appear to be supporting a suppressive regime simply because its opposition doesn't want to be 'taken over' by the Star Kingdom, we could lose any moral high ground in a hurry.

More gunfire from beside him, the men who had been providing suppressive fire were potshotting the plastique balls Rourke and Daszrozinski had missed, chunks of flooring rising up, collapsing downward, screams, the gunfire from the KGB positions sporadic now.

Lon did not know if that was because the suppressive fire by the rest of the company was so successful or if the Belletieners were simply not organized yet.

Not without using suppressive fire that would kill all the hostages, anyway.

With men screaming behind him, he lay down suppressive fire, targeting windows at random, still not knowing where the hell the snipers were.

A couple of the other landcruisers in the squadron slowed down, poured suppressive fire into the trees.

Miller then laid down the best suppressive fire he could manage with his rifle.

He looked crazy, and he was already sweeping out streams like some combat cop laying down suppressive fire.

He thought all that in a tiny slice of time, pivoting the Bad News and laying out heavy suppressive fire, blowing beautiful friezes to cinders and fountaining tiles from the deck to keep the enemy's head down.