All 8 Uses of
suppress
in
Atlas Shrugged
- The slight, choked sound from Eddie Willers was his suppressed desire to cheer.†
Chpt 1.1 *
- She saw the suppressed grins on the solemn faces.†
Chpt 1.8
- Rearden suppressed a swear word.†
Chpt 1.9
- The sentence sounded involuntary, as if, trying to suppress the sound of emotion, he had uttered suppressed words.†
Chpt 2.4
- The sentence sounded involuntary, as if, trying to suppress the sound of emotion, he had uttered suppressed words.†
Chpt 2.4
- The note of a suppressed emotion came back into his voice.†
Chpt 2.4
- She was looking at the tall figure with the sun-streaked hair, with the suppressed smile in the mercilessly perceptive eyes-she was seeing the struggle to build her Line and the summer day of the first train's run-she was thinking that if a human figure could be fashioned as an emblem of that Line, this was the figure.†
Chpt 3.1
- She could not tell whether the dispatcher, an elderly man with years of railroad work behind him, still retained his intelligence but chose to hide it, or whether months of suppressing it had choked it for good, granting him the safety of stagnation, "We don't know what to do, Miss Taggart.†
Chpt 3.5
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.