Verb
To overpower and crush; to subdue; to put down; to quell.
To keep in; to restrain from utterance or vent; as, to suppress the voice; to suppress a smile.
To retain without disclosure; to conceal; not to reveal; to prevent publication of; as, to suppress evidence; to suppress a pamphlet; to suppress the truth.
To stop; to restrain; to arrest the discharges of; as, to suppress a diarrhea, or a hemorrhage.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIt is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. Benjamin Franklin
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. Carl Sagan
In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy. Learned Hand
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales. Aleister Crowley
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. Frederick Douglass
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. Danish Proverb