suppress
verb (used with object)
to put an end to the activities of (a person, body of persons, etc.).
unsuppressible
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a word derived from
suppress.
Example Sentences
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Meantime mind-wandering and wayward fancy are nothing but the unsuppressible imagination cut loose from concern with what is done.
From Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education by John Dewey
All the while, unmoved amidst protestation, appeal, and threat, the steady news-machine went on grinding out unsuppressible history for itself and its city.
From The Clarion by William Dodge Stevens
The look of unsuppressible pride upon his mother’s face, as she walked on his arm, was wonderful to behold.
From The Note-Book of an Attaché Seven Months in the War Zone by Eric Fisher Wood
In discussing it previous to setting about it, he would veil his eagerness under an aspect of great circumspection, curiously marred, however, by continual sallies of unsuppressible impatience.
From White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War by Herman Melville
All his writing has the liveliness of springtime; it stirs with an unsuppressible gayety, and it has the attraction which companionship with him had: there is never enough.
From Appreciations of Richard Harding Davis by Various
