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1. Kept from public knowledge by various means;
    
2. Manifesting or subjected to suppression
   "a suppressed press"
    
3. Held in check with difficulty
   "suppressed laughter";
   - smothered, stifled, strangled

1. To put down by force or authority
   "suppress a nascent uprising";
   - stamp down, inhibit, subdue, conquer, curb
    
2. Dominate or subjugate by unjust use of one's authority and power
   "The government suppresses political activists";
   - oppress, crush
    
3. Control and refrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behaviour
   - inhibit, bottle up
    
4. (psychiatry) put out of one's consciousness
   - repress
    
5. Reduce the incidence or severity of or stop
   "suppress a yawn"; "this drug can suppress the haemorrhage"

See also: burked, hushed-up, inhibited, quelled, quenched, silenced, squelched, unreleased

Type of: bury, check, contain, control, curb, decrease, disremember, forget, hold, hold back, hold in, keep, keep back, lessen, minify, moderate, restrain

Antonym: publicized

Encyclopedia: Suppressed