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{
"term": "suppress",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "suppress",
"heSheIt": "suppresses"
},
"pastSimple": "suppressed",
"pastParticiple": "suppressed",
"ingForm": "suppressing"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to put an end, often by force, to a group or an activity that is believed to threaten authority",
"sensetop": "suppress something",
"labels": "(usually disapproving)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The rebellion was brutally suppressed."
},
{
"text": "They often use violence to suppress opposition."
},
{
"text": "The government sought to suppress a growing armed separatist movement."
},
{
"text": "The regime ruthlessly suppresses all dissent."
},
{
"text": "The strike was violently suppressed by the army."
},
{
"text": "Trade union rights were suppressed and casual work became the norm."
}
],
"synonyms": "quash",
"topics": ["War and conflict"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["brutally", "ruthlessly", "violently"],
"verb + suppress": ["attempt to", "seek to", "try to"],
"phrases": ["an attempt to suppress something"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to prevent something from being published or made known",
"sensetop": "suppress something",
"labels": "(usually disapproving)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The police were accused of suppressing vital evidence."
},
{
"text": "This information had been deliberately suppressed."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["completely", "effectively", "deliberately"],
"verb + suppress": ["attempt to", "seek to", "try to"],
"phrases": ["an attempt to suppress something"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to prevent yourself from having or expressing a feeling or an emotion",
"sensetop": "suppress something",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "to suppress a smile"
},
{
"text": "She was unable to suppress her anger."
},
{
"text": "He had suppressed the painful memories of his childhood."
},
{
"text": "He could hardly suppress his surprise."
},
{
"text": "Her face was charged with barely suppressed anger."
},
{
"text": "She was unable to suppress a giggle."
},
{
"text": "The disloyal thought was instantly suppressed."
},
{
"text": "He couldn't suppress the excitement in his voice."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["barely", "hardly", "instantly"],
"verb + suppress": ["be unable to", "cannot", "try to"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "to prevent something from growing, developing or continuing",
"sensetop": "suppress something",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "drugs that suppress the appetite"
},
{
"text": "A 5 cm layer will suppress weed growth."
},
{
"text": "Transplant patients take drugs which suppress the immune system."
},
{
"text": "The medication effectively suppressed the pain."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/səˈpres/",
"audio": "su/suppress/suppress__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/səˈpresɪz/",
"audio": "su/suppress/suppresses__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/səˈprest/",
"audio": "su/suppress/suppressed__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/səˈpresɪŋ/",
"audio": "su/suppress/suppressing__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/səˈpres/",
"audio": "su/suppress/suppress__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/səˈpresɪz/",
"audio": "su/suppress/suppresses__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/səˈprest/",
"audio": "su/suppress/suppressed__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/səˈpresɪŋ/",
"audio": "su/suppress/suppressing__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Latin suppress- ‘pressed down’, from the verb supprimere, from sub- ‘down’ + premere ‘to press’."
}