All 14 Uses of
suppress
in
Bleak House
- To whom the law-stationer relates his Joful and woeful experience, suppressing the half-crown fact.†
Chpt 19-21 *
- And Mr. Snagsby again relates his experience, again suppressing the half-crown fact.†
Chpt 19-21
- At the same time, a low whistle is wafted through the Inn and a suppressed voice cries, "Hip!†
Chpt 19-21
- Is it suppression?†
Chpt 25-27
- Mr. Snagsby has made a pause to suppress a groan.†
Chpt 31-33
- These words she uttered with a suppressed cry of despair, more terrible in its sound than any shriek.†
Chpt 34-36
- I suppress names for the present.†
Chpt 40-42
- "Do I look as if I suppressed anything, meant anything but what I said, had any reservation at all, no matter what?" said he with his bright clear eyes on mine.†
Chpt 43-45
- Mr. Snagsby answers with a suppressed groan, oh, don't he!†
Chpt 46-48
- "There again!" says Mr. Snagsby, who, between the earnestness of his feelings and the suppressed tones of his voice is discoloured in the face.†
Chpt 46-48
- At length, feeling sure that Ada suppressed this something from me lest it should make me unhappy too, it came into my head that she was a little grieved—for me—by what I had told her about Bleak House.†
Chpt 49-51
- But so long accustomed to suppress emotion and keep down reality, so long schooled for her own purposes in that destructive school which shuts up the natural feelings of the heart like flies in amber and spreads one uniform and dreary gloss over the good and bad, the feeling and the unfeeling, the sensible and the senseless, she had subdued even her wonder until now.†
Chpt 55-57
- Finding it impossible to suppress those yawns by any other process than conversation, she compliments Mrs. Rouncewell on her son, declaring that he positively is one of the finest figures she ever saw and as soldierly a looking person, she should think, as what's his name, her favourite Life Guardsman —the man she dotes on, the dearest of creatures—who was killed at Waterloo.†
Chpt 58-60
- I have suppressed none of my many weaknesses on that subject, but have written them as faithfully as my memory has recalled them.†
Chpt 61-63
Definition:
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(suppress) trying to keep under controlThe exact meaning of suppress can depend upon its context. For example:
- "suppressed the revolution" -- to stop others from doing something by force
- "suppressed a smile" -- kept something from happening
- "suppressed the story" -- kept news from spreading
- "suppressed her fear" -- controlled an emotion
- "suppressed the memory" -- avoided thinking about (perhaps even removed from conscious memory)
editor's notes: Synonym Comparison (if you're into word choice):
Suppress and repress can be interchanged; though in psychology something that is repressed is done unconsciously while something that is suppressed is done voluntarily.