Verb

(en verb)

To remove a veil from; to divest of a veil; to uncover; to disclose to view; to reveal.

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, year=1996 , author=Status of women in Islam , title=Status of women in Islam , page=91 , passage=The Schools of Jurisprudence of Abu Hanifa, Al-Shafaii and Malik agree that the woman is permitted to unveil her face and hands in the streets in front of the strangers. However, if this display of the face does rouse temptation and charm, the woman has to veil her face as she does the rest of her body.}}

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, year=1836 , author=James Cook , title=The Three voyages of Captain Cook round the world , page=356 , passage=A sort of curtain, made of- mat, usually hung before them, which the natives were sometimes unwilling to remove ; and when they did consent to unveil them, they seemed to express themselves in a very mysterious manner.}}

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, year=1831 , author=Thomas Dick , title=The works of Thomas Dick , page=102 , passage=Since, therefore, the science of natural philosophy is conversant about the works of the Almighty, and its investigations have a direct tendency to illustrate the perfections of his nature, to unveil the plan of his operations, to unfold the laws by which he governs the kingdom of universal nature, and to display the order, symmetry, and proportion, which reign throughout the whole.}}

To remove a veil; to reveal one's self.

Verb

to put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue

''Political dissent was brutally suppressed .

to restrain or repress an expression

''I struggled to suppress my smile.

(psychiatry) to exclude undesirable thoughts from one's mind

He unconsciously suppressed his memories of abuse.

to prevent publication

The government suppressed the findings of their research about the true state of the economy.

to stop a flow or stream

The rescue team managed to suppress the flow of oil by blasting the drilling hole.

''Hot blackcurrant juice mixed with honey may suppress cough.

(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