English English Dictionary

A pill or bolus for introduction into the rectum; esp., a cylinder or cone of medicated cacao butter.

Supposition; hypothesis; conjecture.

To overpower and crush; to subdue; to put down; to quell.

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

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.

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

of Suppress

That may be suppressed.

of Suppress

The act of suppressing, or the state of being suppressed; repression; as, the suppression of a riot, insurrection, or tumult; the suppression of truth, of reports, of evidence, and the like.

Complete stoppage of a natural secretion or excretion; as, suppression of urine; -- used in contradiction to retention, which signifies that the secretion or excretion is retained without expulsion.

Omission; as, the suppression of a word.

Tending to suppress; subduing; concealing.

One who suppresses.

To surprise.

A suppurative.

To generate pus; as, a boil or abscess suppurates.

To cause to generate pus; as, to suppurate a sore.

of Suppurate

of Suppurate