suppressed
- 1Simple past and past participle of suppress.
The regime suppressed every opposition newspaper within weeks.
His research was suppressed by the company for nearly a decade.
Note
A regular -ed form that does double duty, building the perfect (had suppressed) and the passive (was suppressed) alike. It also settles in front of nouns as an adjective, and each meaning of suppress gets its own pairing there: suppressed laughter is held back, suppressed memories are pushed out of mind, and suppressed evidence, in US courts, is barred from trial.
She let out a suppressed laugh when the speaker tripped over his notes.
Without the suppressed evidence, the prosecution's case fell apart.
suppressed is a form of suppress
suppress, verb: To put an end to something forcefully: crushing, subduing, or prohibiting it. Full entry
- Forms
- suppresssuppresses he/she/itsuppressing -ing formsuppressed past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- suppress → suppressed: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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