Suppress vs Decrease - What's the difference?
suppress | decrease |
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
Of a quantity, to become smaller.
To make (a quantity) smaller.
An amount by which a quantity is decreased.
(knitting) A reduction in the number of stitches, usually accomplished by suspending the stitch to be decreased from another existing stitch or by knitting it together with another stitch. See .
As verbs the difference between suppress and decrease
is that suppress is to put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue while decrease is of a quantity, to become smaller.As a noun decrease is
an amount by which a quantity is decreased.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.