Front | suppress |
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Pron | [sə'pres] |
Back | 【SUPPRESS】 The police suppressed the riot by firing over the heads of the crowd. 警察在群众头顶上开枪,以镇压暴动。 【重点词汇】 suppress v. 镇压 同: subdue |
Vocab | suppressto put down by force or authority
To suppress something means to curb, inhibit, or even stop it. If the sound of your boss moving in his chair sounds like gas, you’re going to have to learn how to suppress your giggles. In the strictest sense, suppress means to put an end to something by force, like a government that suppresses the right to free speech by shutting down the newspapers or the military suppressing an uprising by rebel forces. But we also use suppress in less serious terms to describe an attempt to muffle or stifle something, such as suppressing a sneeze in a quiet theater or suppressing your true emotions to not cause a teary scene. All forms of 'suppress' will appear on average once every 226 pages. suppress suppressed suppresser suppression suppressive suppressor unsuppressed |
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