suppress
verb (used with object)
to put an end to the activities of (a person, body of persons, etc.).
suppresser
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a word derived from
suppress.
Example Sentences
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Three years and $5,000,000 spent on research produced a sound suppresser that Boeing claims will make its four-jet 707s quieter than big piston planes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Among other instances of this writer's want of candour is the fact of his having been the discoverer and suppresser of the manuscript review of Tasso by Galileo.
From Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2 by Torquato Tasso
