Meaning of "suppress" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SUPPRESS

From Latin suppressus held down, from supprimere to restrain, from sub- down + premere to press.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF SUPPRESS

suppress  [səˈprɛs]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SUPPRESS

Suppress is a verb.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb suppress in English.

WHAT DOES SUPPRESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Suppression

Suppression may refer to: ▪ Oppression, the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner, also an act or instance of oppressing ▪ Censorship, the suppression of public communication considered objectionable to the general body of people as determined by a government or media outlet ▪ Suppression of evidence, the act of preventing evidence from being shown in a trial ▪ Voter suppression, a strategy to influence the outcome of an election by discouraging or preventing people from exercising their right to vote ▪ Cultural suppression, occurs when a culture is suppressed, usually coinciding with the promotion of another culture, often related to cultural imperialism ▪ Religious intolerance, intolerance against another's religious beliefs or practices by individuals, private groups, government agencies or the whole government ▪ Suppression of dissent, occurs when an individual or group tries to censor, persecute or otherwise oppress the other party rather than communicate logically ▪ Thought suppression, the process of deliberately trying to stop thinking about certain thoughts, associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder...

Definition of suppress in the English dictionary

The first definition of suppress in the dictionary is to put an end to; prohibit. Other definition of suppress is to hold in check; restrain. Suppress is also to withhold from circulation or publication.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO SUPPRESS

PRESENT

Present

I suppress

you suppress

he/she/it suppresses

we suppress

you suppress

they suppress

Present continuous

I am suppressing

you are suppressing

he/she/it is suppressing

we are suppressing

you are suppressing

they are suppressing

Present perfect

I have suppressed

you have suppressed

he/she/it has suppressed

we have suppressed

you have suppressed

they have suppressed

Present perfect continuous

I have been suppressing

you have been suppressing

he/she/it has been suppressing

we have been suppressing

you have been suppressing

they have been suppressing

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I suppressed

you suppressed

he/she/it suppressed

we suppressed

you suppressed

they suppressed

Past continuous

I was suppressing

you were suppressing

he/she/it was suppressing

we were suppressing

you were suppressing

they were suppressing

Past perfect

I had suppressed

you had suppressed

he/she/it had suppressed

we had suppressed

you had suppressed

they had suppressed

Past perfect continuous

I had been suppressing

you had been suppressing

he/she/it had been suppressing

we had been suppressing

you had been suppressing

they had been suppressing

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will suppress

you will suppress

he/she/it will suppress

we will suppress

you will suppress

they will suppress

Future continuous

I will be suppressing

you will be suppressing

he/she/it will be suppressing

we will be suppressing

you will be suppressing

they will be suppressing

Future perfect

I will have suppressed

you will have suppressed

he/she/it will have suppressed

we will have suppressed

you will have suppressed

they will have suppressed

Future perfect continuous

I will have been suppressing

you will have been suppressing

he/she/it will have been suppressing

we will have been suppressing

you will have been suppressing

they will have been suppressing

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would suppress

you would suppress

he/she/it would suppress

we would suppress

you would suppress

they would suppress

Conditional continuous

I would be suppressing

you would be suppressing

he/she/it would be suppressing

we would be suppressing

you would be suppressing

they would be suppressing

Conditional perfect

I would have suppress

you would have suppress

he/she/it would have suppress

we would have suppress

you would have suppress

they would have suppress

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been suppressing

you would have been suppressing

he/she/it would have been suppressing

we would have been suppressing

you would have been suppressing

they would have been suppressing

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you suppress
we let´s suppress
you suppress

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to suppress

Past participle

suppressed

Present Participle

suppressing

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «SUPPRESS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «suppress» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of suppress

beat down · censor · check · conceal · conquer · contain · crush · curb · extinguish · hide · hush up · inhibit · muffle · muzzle · overpower · overthrow · quash · quell · quench · repress · restrain · silence · smother · stamp out · stifle · stonewall · stop · subdue · withhold

TRANSLATION OF SUPPRESS

Find out the translation of suppress to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of suppress from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «suppress» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 镇压
• Translator English - Spanish: suprimir
• English: suppress
• Translator English - Hindi: दबाने
• Translator English - Arabic: قمع
• Translator English - Russian: подавить
• Translator English - Portuguese: suprimir
• Translator English - Bengali: দমন করা
• Translator English - French: réprimer
• Translator English - Malay: Menindas
• Translator English - German: unterdrücken
• Translator English - Japanese: 抑圧する
• Translator English - Korean: 억제하다
• Translator English - Javanese: Nyegah
• Translator English - Vietnamese: ngăn chặn
• Translator English - Tamil: ஒடுக்க
• Translator English - Marathi: दडपणे
• Translator English - Turkish: bastırmak
• Translator English - Italian: reprimere
• Translator English - Polish: tłumić
• Translator English - Ukrainian: придушити
• Translator English - Romanian: suprima
• Translator English - Greek: καταστέλλουν
• Translator English - Afrikaans: onderdruk
• Translator English - Swedish: undertrycka
• Translator English - Norwegian: undertrykke

10 QUOTES WITH «SUPPRESS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word suppress.

1

Joyce Appleby

Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.

2

Reza Aslan

When you forcefully suppress religious nationalism, you radicalize it.

3

Georges Bizet

As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.

4

Jack Bowman

I'm still very aware of the violence in our culture, more so than other people. I know where it comes from when someone is trying to suppress someone else, sometimes they fight back.

5

Jacqueline Carey

It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean, spare prose. I finally gave up and embraced my baroque tendencies when I wrote the Kushiel series.

6

Paul Conroy

The Saudi government uses a lot of British equipment to suppress their own people. But we're happy for our politicians to go on advertising trips to Saudi, selling our weapons at the trade conventions.

7

Aleister Crowley

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

8

James Daly

You can't suppress creativity, you can't suppress innovation.

9

Bae Doona

It was extremely difficult to suppress my emotions, because my character in' A Girl at My Door' goes through so many infuriating situations. It was a lonely process having to portray someone that acts tough but is deeply hurting inside and is unable to express that.

10

Frederick Douglass

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUPPRESS»

Discover the use of suppress in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to suppress and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

How to Suppress Women's Writing

Discusses the obstacles women have had to overcome in order to become writers, and identifies the sexist rationalizations used to trivialize their contributions

Joanna Russ, 1983

Motion to Suppress

From the Paperback edition.

Perri O'Shaughnessy, 2007

A Power Governments Cannot Suppress

A Power Governments Cannot Suppress\ea\es us with the faith that citizens have what it takes to confront power and to reverse the dangerous and unjust acts of our government." —JONATHAN KOZOL, author of The Shame of the Nation: The  ...

Howard Zinn, 2013

Alfred; or, a narrative of the daring and illegal measures ...

With interesting remarks on a regency: proving, on principles of law and common sense that a certain illustrious personage is not eligible to the important trust Philip Withers. r OR A NARRATIVE OF THE DARING AND ILLEGAL MEASURES  ...

Philip Withers, 1789

Corpus-based Analysis of the Partial Synonyms "oppress, ...

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English - Pedagogy, Didactics, Literature Studies, grade: 1,7, http: //www.uni-jena.de/ (Institut fur Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Seminar, 12 entries in the bibliography, language: ...

Volker Lorenz, 2008

Handbook of Massachusetts Evidence

§11.3 Challenging Identification Evidence § 11.3.1 Motion to Suppress When an allegedly impermissible pretrial identification has occurred, the defendant must seasonably raise the issue by filing a motion to suppress the evidence before ...

Paul J. Liacos, Mark S. Brodin, Michael Avery, 2006

Periodic mowings suppress tamarisk growth, increase forage ...

Periodic Mowings Suppress Tamarisk Growth, Increase Forage for Browsing C. J. Campbell 1 Tamarisk (Tamarix pentandra Pall.) was clipped (completely defoliated) and mowed at 2-, 4-, 8-, and 24-week intervals throughout the growing ...

C. J. Campbell, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station (Fort Collins, Colo.), 1966

Shall We License Or Shall We Suppress the Liquor Shops of ...

SHALL WE LICENSE OR SHALL WE SUPPRESS THE LIQUOR SHOPS OF MASSACHUSETTS? 45 . AKGUMENT ROBERT C. PITMAN, SENATE OF MASSACHUSETTS, .April 7, 1868. " TVc are convinced that If a Statesman, who heartily ...

Robert C. Pitman, 1868

Don't Suppress Your Empathy

Epilogue. The old lady told me that we are all fighters. She was right, because as C. G. Jung teaches us, “The serious problems of life are never fully solved.” This, however, does not mean that we should give up. We are fighters, and we can ...

Bela Newman

Sedatives May Suppress Arousal While Allowing Greater ...

The results show that some sedatives can suppress arousal from sleep while allowing greater recruitment of pharyngeal muscle activity in response to respiratory stimulation.

Eileen Park, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SUPPRESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term suppress is used in the context of the following news items.

Brevard judge denies motion to suppress statements in NYE hit-and …

A Brevard County judge has denied a motion to suppress some statements in a Cocoa Beach hit-and-run case. Michelle Simkins, who was driving without a ... «WFTV Orlando, Jul 15»

Judge refuses to suppress statements in Taliban case

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A judge in Virginia has refused to suppress statements by a Russian man charged with leading a Taliban attack against U.S. forces in ... «The Seattle Times, Jul 15»

Attorney seeks to suppress evidence of 2 kilos of cocaine

GULFPORT, Miss. —An attorney wants evidence, seized after a traffic stop, suppressed at a man's upcoming trial. She claims 2 kilos of cocaine were seized ... «WAPT Jackson, Jun 15»

Chimerix Completes Targeted Enrollment for Brincidofovir Phase 3 …

"We have reached our targeted 450 enrolled patients in SUPPRESS, a major milestone for Chimerix that brings us closer to providing potential evidence of ... «GlobeNewswire, Jun 15»

Matthew's Defense Seeks to Suppress Fairfax Evidence

FAIRFAX, Va (WVIR) - The man accused of killing University of Virginia student Hannah Graham is looking to suppress evidence in the Fairfax case, where he is ... «NBC 29 News, May 15»

Capobianco wants evidence suppressed

Capobianco wants evidence suppressed ... his pregnant ex-girlfriend is asking the court to suppress evidence in his case, leading to a delay in his trial. An April ... «Maui News, Apr 15»

Brain protein 'can suppress binge drinking'

"When we then mimicked the actions of NPY using engineered proteins, we were also able to suppress binge alcohol drinking in mice," Kash adds. «Medical News Today, Mar 15»

Chimerix Provides Update on Anticipated SUPPRESS Enrollment

The SUPPRESS trial is evaluating brincidofovir for the prevention of clinically significant cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection in hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) ... «GlobeNewswire, Feb 15»

Request to suppress statements, video denied

Lucas County Common Pleas Judge Frederick McDonald today denied motions filed by attorneys for Ray Abou-Arab to suppress statements he made to police ... «Toledo Blade, Jan 15»

Researchers Find New Way To Suppress Inflammation Without …

ATLANTA—A new “trick” steroids use to suppress inflammation, which could be used to make new anti-inflammatory drugs without the harmful side effects of ... «GSU News, Jan 15»