{
    "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’."
}