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Princeton's WordNet

  1. suppressedadjective

    kept from public knowledge by various means;

  2. suppressedadjective

    manifesting or subjected to suppression

    "a suppressed press"

  3. smothered, stifled, strangled, suppressedadjective

    held in check with difficulty

    "a smothered cough"; "a stifled yawn"; "a strangled scream"; "suppressed laughter"

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  1. suppressed

    Suppressed generally refers to the act of forcibly putting an end to or preventing something from happening. It commonly relates to actions, emotions, information, or aspects of identity being consciously withheld, restrained, or muted either by an individual, group, or an entity such as a government or organization. It can also refer to the controlling or reducing of something such as a disease or a chemical reaction.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Suppressed

    of Suppress

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of suppressed in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of suppressed in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of suppressed in a Sentence

  1. Pramila Jayapal:

    I felt it critical that the American people saw that we know how democracy has been undermined and votes have been suppressed.

  2. Bertrand Russell:

    The practical objection to Puritanism, as to every form of fanaticism, is that it singles out certain evils as so much worse than others that they must be suppressed at all costs. The fanatic fails to recognise that the suppression of a real evil, if carried out too drastically, produces other evils which are even greater.

  3. John Bolton:

    We have now liberated the Twitter account, previously suppressed unfairly in the aftermath of my resignation as National Security Advisor, in full disclosure, the @WhiteHouse never returned access to my Twitter account. Thank you to @twitter for standing by their community standards and rightfully returning control of my account.

  4. Thomas Carlyle:

    Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

  5. The IAAF:

    In 2011, there was a huge influx of suspicious profiles coming through the ABP, no cases were concealed or suppressed, the IAAF simply tackled them in order of importance. .

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