suppress

Other forms of suppress

past tense

suppressed·

present participle

suppressing·

third person

suppresses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about suppress

What does suppress mean?

suppress means "bring under control by force or authority". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in suppress?

suppress has 2 syllables: sup-press. The stress falls on "press". In IPA it is /səˈpɹɛs/.

What is another word for suppress?

Close synonyms include stamp down, subdue, conquer, oppress, crush. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is suppress a common word?

suppress is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with suppress?

6 words rhyme with suppress. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.