Withhold vs Suppress - What's the difference?
withhold | suppress |
To keep (a physical object that one has obtained) to oneself rather than giving it back to its owner.
To keep (information, etc) to oneself rather than revealing it.
To retain; to keep back; not to grant; as, to withhold assent to a proposition.
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 verbs the difference between withhold and suppress
is that withhold is to keep (a physical object that one has obtained) to oneself rather than giving it back to its owner while suppress is to put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue.withhold
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* retainDerived terms
* overwithhold * underwithholdsuppress
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- ''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.
