Usually means: Holding back or restraining something.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. suppressing: Merriam-Webster
  2. suppressing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. suppressing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Suppressing, suppressing: Wordnik
  5. suppressing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. suppressing: Wiktionary
  7. suppressing: Dictionary.com
  8. suppressing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Suppressing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Suppressing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. suppressing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. suppressing: FreeDictionary.org
  13. suppressing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. suppressing: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. suppressing: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. suppressing: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. suppressing: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (suppressing)

▸ noun:  The act by which something is suppressed; a suppression.

Similar:
oppress, conquer, inhibit, crush, repress, subdue, curb, bottle up, stamp down, suppression, more...

Opposite:
expressing, releasing, allowing, promoting

Phrases:
immune suppressing, suppressing sound, more...

Adjectives:
best, such, effectual, worth, entire, further, utter, more, self, laborious, formal

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Similar:
oppress, conquer, inhibit, crush, repress, subdue, curb, bottle up, stamp down, suppression, more...

Opposite:
expressing, releasing, allowing, promoting

Phrases:
immune suppressing, suppressing sound, more...

Adjectives:
best, such, effectual, worth, entire, further, utter, more, self, laborious, formal

Colors:
    charcoal,     slate gray,     midnight blue,     olive drab,     dark olive green, more...



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