Supplest vs Supprest - What's the difference?
supplest | supprest |
(supple)
pliant, flexible, easy to bend
lithe and agile when moving and bending
compliant; yielding to the will of others
* John Locke
To make or become supple.
* Dryden
* Spenser
To make compliant, submissive, or obedient.
* John Locke
* Barrow
(obsolete) (suppress)
to put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue
to restrain or repress an expression
(psychiatry) to exclude undesirable thoughts from one's mind
to prevent publication
to stop a flow or stream
(US, legal) to forbid the use of evidence at trial because it is improper or was improperly obtained
(electronics) to reduce unwanted frequencies in a signal
(obsolete) to hold in place, to keep low
As an adjective supplest
is superlative of supple.As a verb supprest is
past tense of suppress.supplest
English
Adjective
(head)supple
English
Adjective
(er)- supple''' joints; '''supple fingers
- a supple horse
- If punishment makes not the will supple , it hardens the offender.
Verb
- The stones suppled into softness as they fell.
- The flesh therewith she suppled and did steep.
- a mother persisting till she had bent her daughter's mind and suppled her will
- They should supple our stiff willfulness.
supprest
English
Verb
(head)suppress
English
Verb
- ''Political dissent was brutally suppressed .
- ''I struggled to suppress my smile.
- He unconsciously suppressed his memories of abuse.
- The government suppressed the findings of their research about the true state of the economy.
- The rescue team managed to suppress the flow of oil by blasting the drilling hole.
- ''Hot blackcurrant juice mixed with honey may suppress cough.
