Bible Dictionaries
Suppress

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(v. t.) To overpower and crush; to subdue; to put down; to quell.

(2):

(v. t.) To keep in; to restrain from utterance or vent; as, to suppress the voice; to suppress a smile.

(3):

(v. t.) To stop; to restrain; to arrest the discharges of; as, to suppress a diarrhea, or a hemorrhage.

(4):

(v. t.) 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.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Suppress'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​s/suppress.html. 1828.