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suppress
verb as in restrain, hold in check
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Example Sentences
Specially trained hazardous materials crews are monitoring air quality as efforts continue to suppress the fire in the ship’s sub-levels.
“Local water systems and hydrants are not designed to suppress firestorm conditions impacting an entire neighborhood of homes at the same time.”
Baroness Hallett found the UK was too late to consider the idea of a lockdown to suppress the disease in 2020, by which time the need for stringent restrictions had become "unavoidable".
Underground religious bodies like Zion Church, though harassed, persist with quiet resilience; officials often face a whack-a-mole reality in trying to suppress them.
Today, the diagnosis includes children whose autism was previously overlooked because of their propensity for “masking,” the act of consciously or unconsciously suppressing autistic traits in order to blend in.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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