Read full poem →And be drawn in a Bath chair along to the grave.
’Tis the stern and prompt suppressing,
As an obvious deadly sin,
Dictionary Entry
To put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue.
In a Sentence
“Political dissent was brutally suppressed.”
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “suppressing”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →To get people to invest?
Or for suppressing the facts about the bank,
When it was rotten and ready to break?