abate, browbeat, crush, dull, hold in check, keep quiet, obtund, quash, show mercy, stop, tyrannize over
Definitionv. to put down by force or authority
Last update: September 15, 2015
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Suppress your fear and go on with your work. [verb]
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The Kurds believe Turkey 's goal would be to suppress the creation of a truly autonomous Kurdish state in northern Iraq. [verb]
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Once more the eyes of the youth roamed over the interior of the lodge, and returning to the former resting place, he uttered, in a deep, suppressed voice: "Hawkeye." [verb]
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When the father had translated the meaning of the stranger's words into the Huron language, a suppressed murmur announced the satisfaction with which this intelligence was received. [verb]
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The young man at his elbow shuddered, but seemed to suppress his feelings in tenderness to his companion. [verb]
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Major Heyward was mistaken only in suffering his youthful and generous pride to suppress his active watchfulness. [verb]
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"We want no such suppressed fires at Whitehall." [verb]
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Doler had been careful to suppress the fact that he was a hireling soldier of the Parliament. [verb]
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