Suppressing Synonyms and Antonyms

To keep from being published or transmitted
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. stifling
  2. hushing
  3. censoring
  4. banning
Restrain, hold in check
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. throttling
  2. strangling
  3. stifling
  4. squelching
  5. smothering
  6. repressing
  7. quenching
  8. muffling
  9. hushing
  10. gagging
  11. choking
Antonyms:
  1. encouraging
  2. releasing
Control and refrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. inhibiting
Put out of one's consciousness
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. repressing

Words Related to Suppressing

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Suppressing Sentence Examples

  • Suppressing the urge to laugh wasn't easy, but she managed it.

  • Well, I guess I did, but I didn't realize I was suppressing strong feelings about it.

  • Adherents flocked to him, and for a whole year Murad was engaged in suppressing his attempts to usurp the throne.

  • The emperor was returning from suppressing a revolt on the part of his son Louis, provoked by this disposition, when he died on the 20th of June 840 on an island in the Rhine near Ingelheim.

  • After suppressing a fresh revolt of the prince of Karamania, the new sultan gave himself up entirely to the realization of the long-cherished project of the conquest of Con- Mahom- stantinople.

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