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SUPPRESSIBLE a.
That may be suppressed.
SUPPRESSION n. 3 definitions
The act of suppressing, or the state of being suppressed; repression; as, the suppression of a riot, insurrection, or tumult; the suppression of truth, of reports, of evidence, and the like.
SUPPRESSIVE a.
Tending to suppress; subduing; concealing.
SUPPRESSOR n.
One who suppresses.
SUPPRISE v.
To surprise. [Obs.] Chaucer.
SUPPURANT n.
A suppurative.
SUPPURATE v. 2 definitions
To generate pus; as, a boil or abscess suppurates.
SUPPURATION n. 2 definitions
The act or process of suppurating.
SUPPURATIVE a. 2 definitions
Tending to suppurate; promoting suppuration. Suppurative fever (Med.), pyæmia.
SUPPUTATE v.
To suppute. [Obs.]
SUPPUTATION n.
Reckoning; account. [Obs.]
SUPPUTE v.
To reckon; to compute; to suppose; to impute. [Obs.] Drayton.
SUPRA adv.
Over; above; before; also, beyond; besides; -- much used as a prefix.
SUPRA-ACROMIAL a.
Situated above the acromial process of the scapula.
SUPRA-ANGULAR a.
See Surangular.
SUPRA-AURICULAR a. 2 definitions
A supra-auricular feather.
SUPRA-AXILLARY a.
Growing above the axil; inserted above the axil, as a peduncle. See Suprafoliaceous.
SUPRA-ESOPHAGAL; SUPRA-ESOPHAGEAL a.
Situated above, or on the dorsal side of, the esophagus; as, the supra-esophageal ganglion of Crustacea. [Written also supra- oesophagal, and supra-oesophageal.]
SUPRA-ETHMOID a.
Above, or on the dorsal side of, the ethmoid bone or cartilage.
SUPRA-ILIUM n.
The cartilaginous cap at the sacral end of the ilium of some animals.
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