suppress

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I don't want to use the word suppress, because he was in my thoughts and I was dealing with it daily, but as powerful a moment as it was to lose your father when he was so young, nevertheless, I did suppress it.

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  1. transitive verb To put an end to forcibly; subdue.
  2. transitive verb To curtail or prohibit the activities of.
  3. transitive verb To keep from being revealed, published, or circulated.
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  • The book Emmet conspired to suppress, the book he made me hate so much because it was the kind of thing I was meant to write all along. —  F ;SF - vol 101 issue 02 - August 2001
  • Still he was sedulous in his endeavors to neglect, suppress, and even insult General Grant, whom he put nominally second in command, but practically reduced to insignificance, until Grant, finding his position “unendurable,” asked to be relieved. —  Abraham Lincoln, Vol. I.
  • I don't want to use the word suppress, because he was in my thoughts and I was dealing with it daily, but as powerful a moment as it was to lose your father when he was so young, nevertheless, I did suppress it. —  MVN
  • "The motion to dismiss or suppress is therefore denied." —  Catholic Online > Daily Readings
  • The attorneys said Robert Blagojevich will not ask the court to suppress -- or rule out as evidence -- the one tape they have now. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English suppressen, from Latin supprimere, suppress- : sub-, sub- + premere, to press; see per-4 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English *suppressen (in past participle suppressed), from Latin suppressus, subpressus, past participle of supprimere, subprimere (later Italian supprimere = French supprimer) = Spanish suprimir = Portuguese supprimir, press down or under, keep back, conceal, suppress, from sub, under, + premere, press: see press.
 

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