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SUPPRESSED
suppressed
(adjective) kept from public knowledge by various means
smothered, stifled, strangled, suppressed
(adjective) held in check with difficulty; “a smothered cough”; “a stifled yawn”; “a strangled scream”; “suppressed laughter”
suppressed
(adjective) manifesting or subjected to suppression; “a suppressed press”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
suppressed
simple past tense and past participle of suppress
Source: Wiktionary
SUPPRESS
Sup*press", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Suppressed; p. pr. & vb. n. Suppressing.] Etym: [L. suppressus, p.p. of supprimere to suppress; sub under + premere, pressum, to press. See Sub-, and Press.]
1. To overpower and crush; to subdue; to put down; to quell. Every rebellion, when it is suppressed, doth make the subject weaker, and the prince stronger. Sir J. Davies.
2. To keep in; to restrain from utterance or vent; as, to suppress the voice; to suppress a smile. Sir W. Scott.
3. To retain without disclosure; to conceal; not to reveal; to prevent publication of; as, to suppress evidence; to suppress a pamphlet; to suppress the truth. She suppresses the name, and this keeps him in a pleasing suspense. Broome.
4. To stop; to restrain; to arrest the discharges of; as, to suppress a diarrhea, or a hemorrhage.
Syn.
– To repress; restrain; put down; overthrow; overpower; overwhelm; conceal; stifle; stop; smother.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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COWBERRY
(noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries
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