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Adjective: suppressed  su'prest
  1. Manifesting or subjected to suppression
    "a suppressed press"
     
  2. Held in check with difficulty
    "suppressed laughter";
    - smothered, stifled, strangled
     
  3. Kept from public knowledge by various means
Verb: suppress  su'pres
  1. Bring under control by force or authority
    "suppress a nascent uprising";
    - stamp down, subdue, conquer
     
  2. Dominate or subjugate by unjust use of one's authority and power
    "The government suppresses political activists";
    - oppress, crush
     
  3. Consciously restrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behaviour
    "suppress a smile";
    - inhibit, bottle up
     
  4. (psychiatry) put out of one's consciousness
    - repress
     
  5. Lessen to the point of stopping
    "suppress a yawn"; "this drug can suppress the haemorrhage"

See also: burked, hushed-up, inhibited, quelled, quenched, silenced, squelched, unreleased

Type of: bury, check, contain, control, curb, decrease, disremember [US, informal], forget, hold, hold in, lessen, minify, mod [informal], moderate

Antonym: publicised [Brit]

Encyclopedia: Suppressed

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