- stopped or kept from carrying on normal activity:In the late 1700s, all members of the suppressed Jesuit Order flocked to Rome from other European countries where they were not tolerated.
- kept in or repressed, as a laugh, feeling, thought, etc.:I heard a suppressed giggle from under the bed.
- withheld from disclosure or publication:There is a reasonable probability that the suppressed evidence would have produced a different verdict.
- stopped or arrested, as a cough, bodily process, etc.:Their study examines how viral therapy combined with a suppressed immune response could be more effective against solid tumors.
- vanquished or subdued; quelled:Six casino workers were killed in a brutally suppressed strike.
- done away with or abolished, by or as by authority:Generations later, descendants of the colonists have generally accepted the formerly suppressed practice of tattooing.
- kept from being expressed genetically:The promise of reversing sickle cell disease symptoms by reactivating a suppressed gene has attracted considerable interest.
- the simple past tense and past participle of suppress.
