suppressed
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Held back, restrained, or kept from being expressed or revealed: Refers to something, often an emotion, sound, or information, that is consciously or forcibly controlled, contained, or not allowed to be openly shown or known.
- Subjected to the act of suppression: Refers to something that has been actively and often forcefully prevented from developing, being published, or becoming publicly known.
Examples of Usage
- Adjective:
- She spoke with suppressed anger, her voice tight and controlled.
- The report contained suppressed evidence that could have changed the trial's outcome.
- After hearing the joke, he let out a suppressed chuckle.
Advanced Usage
- "suppressed memory": A memory of a traumatic event which a person cannot recall, often theorized to be blocked by the mind as a defense mechanism.
- The therapy aimed to help her recover suppressed memories from her childhood.
- In a technical/medical context: Refers to something inhibited or reduced in activity.
- The medication kept the virus in a suppressed state.
Variants and Related Words
- Suppress (verb): To forcibly put an end to; to restrain or prevent the expression of.
- The government tried to suppress the rebellion.
- He couldn't suppress a smile.
- Suppression (noun): The act of suppressing.
- The suppression of free speech is a serious violation of human rights.
- Suppressive (adjective): Tending or serving to suppress.
- The treatment has a suppressive effect on the symptoms.
Synonyms
- Restrained: Kept under control.
- Stifled: Smothered; prevented from being expressed.
- Repressed: Kept subdued and inhibited, often unconsciously.
- Censored: Officially examined and suppressed for moral or political reasons.
Antonyms
- Expressed: Conveyed or communicated.
- Unleashed: Released from restraint.
- Revealed: Made known.
- Unchecked: Not controlled or restrained.
Related Phrases and Idioms
- To keep a lid on something: To suppress or conceal information or activity.
- The company tried to keep a lid on the scandal.
- Bottled up: Refers to suppressed emotions.
- All his anger was bottled up inside.
Adjective
- held in check with difficulty
- a smothered cough
- a stifled yawn
- a strangled scream
- suppressed laughter
- manifesting or subjected to suppression
- a suppressed press
- kept from public knowledge by various means;