Suppress vs Insuppressible - What's the difference?
suppress | insuppressible |
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
That cannot be suppressed.
* {{quote-book, year=1903, author=William Godwin, title=Caleb Williams, chapter=, edition=
, passage=It seemed as if the sense of public resentment had long been gathering strength unperceived, and now burst forth into insuppressible violence. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1921, author=Louis Joseph Vance, title=Red Masquerade, chapter=, edition=
, passage=In its stead Victor favoured Karslake with a slow smile of understanding that broadened into an insuppressible grin of successful malice, a grimace of crude exultation through which peered out the impish savage mutinously imprisoned within a flimsy husk of modern manner. }}
As a verb suppress
is to put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue.As an adjective insuppressible is
that cannot be suppressed.suppress
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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.
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*insuppressible
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