Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Tending or serving to suppress.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending to suppress.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Tending to suppress; subduing; concealing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective That serves to
suppress
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective tending to suppress
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Examples
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A five officer assault rifle squad performed what is called suppressive fire at Ronald.
The Seattle Times 2011
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It can be helpful to discuss the issues with a well-informed person, and long-term suppressive therapy can improve the situation immensely.
unknown title 2009
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It can be helpful to discuss the issues with a well-informed person, and long-term suppressive therapy can improve the situation immensely.
unknown title 2009
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It can be helpful to discuss the issues with a well-informed person, and long-term suppressive therapy can improve the situation immensely.
unknown title 2009
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It can be helpful to discuss the issues with a well-informed person, and long-term suppressive therapy can improve the situation immensely.
unknown title 2009
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It can be helpful to discuss the issues with a well-informed person, and long-term suppressive therapy can improve the situation immensely.
unknown title 2009
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Long-term suppressive acyclovir therapy in hematopoietic stem-cell transplant (HCT) recipients can prevent the emergence of herpes simplex virus (HSV) disease, including acyclovir-resistant HSV disease, researchers report in the July 15th issue of the Journal of Infectious Diseases.
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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This station has voluntarily taken the kind of suppressive action that some would enforce through the federal government.
Dr. Peter Breggin: Michael Savage: Irrepressible Canary in Freedom's Mineshaft 2009
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The church immediately sent emissaries to Ms. Collbran's parents 'house in Los Angeles to inform them that their daughter was "suppressive," Ms. Collbran said.
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The church immediately sent emissaries to Christie Collbran's parents 'house in Los Angeles to inform them that their daughter was "suppressive," Collbran said.
Observer: Home Page 2010
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