Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Restrained; repressed; concealed.
- Oppressed.
- In heraldry, debruised: as, a lion suppressed by a bend.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
suppress .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective manifesting or subjected to suppression
- adjective kept from public knowledge by various means
- adjective held in check with difficulty
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Examples
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Havelock Ellis, "an archaic world of vast emotions and imperfect thoughts," appear to us as happy anticipations of our deductions to the effect that _primitive_ modes of work suppressed during the day participate in the formation of the dream; and with us, as with Delage, the _suppressed_ material becomes the mainspring of the dreaming.
Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners Sigmund Freud 1897
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This is what they call our suppressed cycle I believe, getting all the testing, etc. taken care of before the first monitored, assisted cycle.
windylady Diary Entry windylady 2005
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His eyes were brilliant with what she identified as suppressed outrage.
The Rowan McCaffrey, Anne 1990
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I hated Living With Ghosts with a passion while doing the copy-edit -- and moreover my awful pun which I thought I'd suppressed is still there and can't be removed.
kateelliott: Not As Bad As I Feared kateelliott 2009
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The prayer added to the end of the procession in 1955 has been suppressed from the new Missal entirely.
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Churchill was a rabid colonialist and was Prime Minister when Britain suppressed the Kenyan Mau Mau rebellion.
Ahmed Moor: Israel's Jewish Character Is Subject for Debate Ahmed Moor 2010
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Churchill was a rabid colonialist and was Prime Minister when Britain suppressed the Kenyan Mau Mau rebellion.
Ahmed Moor: Israel's Jewish Character Is Subject for Debate Ahmed Moor 2010
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$200 Billion dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens0
Should path for citizenship be made easier for illegal immigrants? 2010
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Churchill was a rabid colonialist and was Prime Minister when Britain suppressed the Kenyan Mau Mau rebellion.
Ahmed Moor: Israel's Jewish Character Is Subject for Debate Ahmed Moor 2010
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The ship Trumpet has come to an illegal lab, set to make the anti-mutagen that the galactic police (UMCP) have had but have suppressed from the rest of humanity for so long, keeping the alien threat of the Amnion alive for profit.
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