Thesaurus / suppress
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
Hysteria in women, another excuse to suppress their sexuality, became shell-shock for men.
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The goal of eliminating every smallpox case in the world, rather than just suppressing the virus, sounded implausibly lofty.
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In December, The Post revealed a series of Huawei-linked surveillance products that were marketed as being able to suppress potential protests or predict individuals’ ethnicities.
Efficacy is a consideration for patients whose underlying cancer or treatment suppresses their immune systems.
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In the movie, Wendy tells us the drug “suppressed my appetite and gave me all the chemical courage I thought I needed.”
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To be shocked by political violence expressed with impunity is a privilege of those of us who’ve never had our rights violated, our safety dismissed or our vote suppressed.
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Without their active policing of trolls, he says, those who oppose democratic voices will achieve their aim of suppressing them.
AN ALLEGED SAUDI TROLL CAMPAIGN IS TARGETING A MOVIE ABOUT THE MURDER OF JAMAL KHASHOGGISTEVEN ZEITCHIKJANUARY 21, 2021WASHINGTON POST
The point of those models is less to see where a particular fire will go once it’s broken out, and more to serve as a planning tool to help Californians better manage the fire-prone, fire-suppressed landscape they live in.
It has tried to rank sources by how trustworthy they are and suppress the reach of problematic content.
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I thought it was going to be something like maybe they were taking some medications that were suppressing their immune system.
WHY ANTHONY FAUCI ISN’T WORRIED ABOUT THAT COVID-19 MUTATIONNICK FOURIEZOSJANUARY 9, 2021OZY
WORDS RELATED TO SUPPRESS
- arrest
- bind
- bottle up
- box up
- bridle
- chain
- check
- choke back
- circumscribe
- confine
- constrain
- contain
- control
- cool
- cork
- crack down
- curb
- curtail
- debar
- delimit
- detain
- deter
- direct
- fetter
- gag
- govern
- guide
- hamper
- handicap
- harness
- hem in
- hinder
- hogtie
- hold
- impound
- imprison
- inhibit
- jail
- keep
- keep down
- keep in line
- kill
- limit
- lock up
- manacle
- muzzle
- pinion
- prevent
- proscribe
- pull back
- repress
- restrict
- sit on
- stay
- subdue
- suppress
- tie down
- tie up
- choke off
- clam
- clam up
- close up
- cool it
- cut off
- cut short
- dampen
- deaden
- decrease the volume
- dry up
- dull
- dumb
- dummy up
- extinguish
- gag
- hold one's tongue
- hush
- hush one's mouth
- hush-hush
- keep it down
- lull
- muffle
- mute
- muzzle
- overawe
- pipe down
- quash
- quell
- quiet
- quiet down
- quieten
- say nothing
- shut up
- sit on
- soft-pedal
- squelch
- stifle
- still
- strike dumb
- subdue
- suppress
- tongue-tie
- choke off
- clam
- clam up
- close up
- cool it
- cut off
- cut short
- dampen
- deaden
- decrease the volume
- dry up
- dull
- dumb
- dummy up
- extinguish
- gag
- hold one's tongue
- hush
- hush one's mouth
- hush-hush
- keep it down
- lull
- muffle
- mute
- muzzle
- overawe
- pipe down
- quash
- quell
- quiet
- quiet down
- quieten
- say nothing
- shush
- shut up
- sit on
- soft-pedal
- squelch
- stifle
- still
- strike dumb
- subdue
- suppress
- tongue-tie
- choke off
- clam
- clam up
- close up
- cool it
- cut off
- cut short
- dampen
- deaden
- decrease the volume
- dry up
- dull
- dumb
- dummy up
- extinguish
- gag
- hold one's tongue
- hush
- hush one's mouth
- hush-hush
- keep it down
- lull
- muffle
- mute
- muzzle
- overawe
- pipe down
- quash
- quell
- quiet
- quiet down
- quieten
- say nothing
- shush
- shut up
- sit on
- soft-pedal
- squelch
- stifle
- still
- strike dumb
- subdue
- suppress
- tongue-tie
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