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g; to prevent the effect or efficiency of; to cause to cease; to repress; to restrain; to suppress; to interrupt; to suspend; as, to stop the execution of a decree, the progress of vice, the approaches of old age or infirmity. Whose disposition all the world well knows Will not be rubbed nor stopped. Shak.…

To hinder from appearance; to stifle; to suppress. "Strangle such thoughts." Shak.

Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression of sense or feeling; lethargy.

The act of obtaining a favor by surprise, or by unfair representation through suppression or fraudulent concealment of facts. Bp. Hall.

A contraction of syllables by suppressing some vowel or diphthong at the end of a word, before another vowel or diphthong; as, th' army, for the army. [Written also synaloepha.]

mpted to supplant the Manchu dynasty by the Taiping rebellion, incited by him in 1850 and suppressed by General Gordon about 1864.

s information of the private concerns of others; one who tells that which prudence should suppress.

The practice of secret or stealthy murder by Thugs. "One of the suppressors of Thuggee." J. D. Hooker.

To make the sound of a half-suppressed laugh; to titter; to giggle. J. Fletcher.

To keep under, or in subjection; to suppress. [Obs.] Spenser.

Suppressed or concealed mirth. [Obs.] The Coronation.

Acting as a substitute; -- said of abnormal action which replaces a suppressed normal function; as, vicarious hemorrhage replacing menstruation.

zens for the oversight and protection of any interest, esp. one organized for the summary suppression and punishment of crime, as when the processes of law appear inadequate.

Used substantively with the antecedent suppressed, equivalent to that which, or those [persons] who, or those [things] which; -- called a compound relative. With joy beyond what victory bestows. Cowper. I'm thinking Captain Lawton will count the noses of what are left before they see their whaleboats. Cooper. What foll…