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

Meanwhile, gold boomed because it was at last allowed to float free in the financial markets after being suppressed for nearly 40 years by the U.S. government.

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"My entire life, I had struggled with doubts about my masculinity and a suppressed desire to be seen as brave," he says.

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Kennedy said his department is closely examining the potential link between autism and vaccines, and that research on it had been actively suppressed.

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The first national railroad workers’ strike in 1877 was the beginning of industrial-era struggles between labor and capital, as Army and National Guard forces suppressed worker rebellions along rail lines.

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Every character has intriguing, suppressed triggers — crushes, past lovers, mommy issues, jealousies — that would complicate how we interpret their behavior if they weren’t hidden until the end of the film.

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