SUPPRESS, SUPPRESSED, SUPPRESSING, SUPPRESSION
ADJECTIVES
► POTTED snubbed, suppressed → 1880 obs.
► TELESCOPED suppressed, silenced → 1892 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
NOUNS
► BURKING a stifling or quietly but effectively suppressing → 1827
► DOWN-BEARING a bearing or bringing someone to something down; suppression; oppression → 1629 obs.
► DOWNDRAW oppression, suppression → 1874 Sc.
VERBS
► ADWESCH to extinguish, to quench; to put an end to, to suppress, to quell; to overwhelm, to destroy, to kill → 1000 obs.
► BLANKET to suppress, to put in the shade → 1903
► BURKE to smother, to ‘hush up’, to suppress quietly → 1835
► CHOKE OFF to discourage, to suppress → 1999 (Bk.)
► COUCH to put down, to quell, to suppress → 1577 obs.
► CRY DOWN to forbid, suppress, or condemn by public proclamation; to publicly disclaim responsibility for → 1457
► CUSHION to suppress anything quietly; to take no notice of it → 1818
► DAUNT to quell, to subdue, to suppress, to reduce to submission → 1297 obs.
► DECRY to denounce, to condemn, to suppress, or to depreciate by proclamation; to reduce the value of money → 1617
► DOWNTREAD to suppress or subdue; to oppress by tyranny → 1536 chiefly literary usage
► LAY FULL LOW to destroy, to overthrow, to kill; to defeat, to subdue, to suppress → 1425
► NITHER to oppress, to lay low, to suppress, to keep under, to vex, to harass → 1721 Sc.
► OPPRESS 1. to put down, to suppress; to crush, to quell, to subdue, to overwhelm a person → c1340 obs.
2. to suppress, to keep out of sight, to conceal → 1538 obs.
► SMOOR to conceal or hide; to suppress; to deaden, to stupefy → 1513 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SMORE to suppress, to keep in obscurity or concealment → 1480
► SMOTHER ► SMOTHER UP to conceal by keeping silent about; to suppress all mention of; to hush up → 1579 obs.
► SNUFF OUT to suppress, put an end to → colloq.
► SUBPRESS to suppress → 1536 obs.