suppress (redirected from suppresses)

To stop something or someone; to prevent, prohibit, or subdue.

To suppress evidence is to keep it from being admitted at trial by showing either that it was illegally obtained or that it is irrelevant.

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suppress verb arrest, ban, burke, bury, cancel, censor, check, choke, choke back, cloak, conceal, cover up, crush, delete, end, extinguish, gag, hush up, inhibit, keep back, keep down, keep out of sight, keep secret, mask, muffle, obstruct, overcome, overpower, overthrow, prevent, prohibit, quash, quell, quench, repress, reprimere, restrain, screen, shroud, silence, smother, stifle, still, stop, strangle, subdue, vanquish, veil
Associated concepts: motion to suppress evidence

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See also: abate, abolish, allay, arrest, ban, beat, camouflage, censor, check, cloak, clog, coerce, conceal, condemn, confine, constrain, constrict, contain, control, counter, countervail, curb, debar, defeat, delay, detain, disadvantage, eliminate, enjoin, ensconce, eradicate, expurgate, extinguish, fetter, forestall, halt, hamper, hide, hold up, inhibit, keep, lessen, limit, moderate, negate, obliterate, obscure, obstruct, overthrow, overturn, overwhelm, palliate, prevail, prohibit, quash, repress, restrain, restrict, revoke, shroud, stay, stem, stifle, stop, strangle, subdue, subject, subjugate, trammel, withhold