Definitions For Suppress

verb

  • Lessen to the point of stopping
  • Bring under control by force or authority
  • Put out of one's consciousness
  • Consciously restrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior
  • Come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority
  • To end or stop (something) by force
  • To keep (something) secret : to not allow people to know about or see (something)
  • To not allow yourself to feel, show, or be affected by (an emotion)

Is Suppresses a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
14
Words with Friends
17

The word Suppress is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Suppress in a Sentence

  • Political dissent was brutally suppressed.
  • The governor tried to suppress the news.
  • He struggled to suppress his feelings of jealousy.

Synonyms for Suppress

Antonyms for Suppresses

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