suppressed

[suh-prest]

adjective

1. stopped or kept from carrying on normal activity.

   In the late 1700s, all members of the suppressed Jesuit Order flocked to Rome from other European countries where they were not tolerated.

2. kept in or repressed, as a laugh, feeling, thought, etc..

   I heard a suppressed giggle from under the bed.

3. withheld from disclosure or publication.

   There is a reasonable probability that the suppressed evidence would have produced a different verdict.

4. stopped or arrested, as a cough, bodily process, etc..

   Their study examines how viral therapy combined with a suppressed immune response could be more effective against solid tumors.

5. vanquished or subdued; quelled.

   Six casino workers were killed in a brutally suppressed strike.

6. done away with or abolished, by or as by authority.

   Generations later, descendants of the colonists have generally accepted the formerly suppressed practice of tattooing.

7. kept from being expressed genetically.

   The promise of reversing sickle cell disease symptoms by reactivating a suppressed gene has attracted considerable interest.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of suppress.

Other Word Forms

• suppressedly adverb
• nonsuppressed adjective
• quasi-suppressed adjective
• unsuppressed adjective
• well-suppressed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of suppressed¹

suppress ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

After Los Angeles firefighters suppressed the Jan. 1 fire known as the Lachman fire, it continued to smolder and burn underground, “unbeknownst to anyone,” according to federal officials.

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Mas'ud's lawyers are trying to stop the jury from hearing about the statement and have filed a motion asking for it to be suppressed.

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Bourla was quoted in Pfizer’s news release as stating that the deal addresses “two critical fronts, tariffs and pricing that have suppressed the industry’s valuations to historic lows.”

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It was brutally suppressed by the British leaving about 10% of the adult male Arab Palestinian population killed, wounded, imprisoned or exiled, according to one estimate.

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After his arrest at the airport last year, Cameron's identity was suppressed due to a reporting ban.

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