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    After achieving full control of the legislative and executive branches, Hitler suppressed the remaining opposition.
    suppressed = stop others from doing something by force
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    I have to suppress hysteria if I'm going to help him.  (source)
    suppress = keep under control
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    "Now, now, Malfoy," said Snape, though he couldn't suppress a thin-lipped smile.  (source)
    suppress = prevent; or keep under control
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    Roy suppressed a smile.  (source)
    suppressed = kept or tried to keep under control
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    I always stayed at the park until I could no longer suppress my growling stomach.  (source)
    suppress = keep under control
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    I hurried on, suppressing a savage urge to push my fist through the pane.  (source)
    suppressing = keeping under control
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    the suppression of the horrors of the Middle Passage  (source)
    suppression = the act of trying to keep news from spreading
    standard suffix: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.
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    Society suppresses us and dominates us  (source)
    suppresses = tries to keep under control
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    Soon as the rage of hunger was suppress'd, The generous Nestor thus the prince address'd.  (source)
    suppress'd = under control
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    My eyes skim other shelves—they only have plague suppressants and various painkillers.  (source)
    suppressants = medicine that keeps something from happening
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    Even if I were not fully conscious of what my mother's death meant, I had been for two years unconsciously absorbing it through Stella's silent grief; through my father's demonstrative grief; again through all the things that changed and stopped; the ending of society; of gaiety; the giving up of St Ives; the black clothes; the suppressions; the locked door of her bedroom.†  (source)
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    Holly opened her mouth to protest, and had it instantly filled with rad-suppressant foam.†  (source)
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    Unsuppressed rounds meant enemy fire.†  (source)
    Unsuppressed = uncontrolled
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unsuppressed means not and reverses the meaning of suppressed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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