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immunosuppress

immunosuppress verb: to cause immunosuppression in.

Verb

immunosuppress (third-person singular simple present immunosuppresses, present participle immunosuppressing, simple past and past participle immunosuppressed)

  1. (transitive) To cause immunosuppression in.
    • If AIDS is fuelled by a chronic activation of the immune system, then it would make sense to immunosuppress these patients.1999, Angus G. Dalgleish, Robin A. Weiss, HIV and the New Viruses, page 179
    • Most parasitic organisms are known to immunosuppress their host to some extent.2001, Albert O. Bush, Parasitism: The Diversity and Ecology of Animal Parasites, page 23

Forms of immunosuppress

third-person singular presentimmunosuppresses
present participleimmunosuppressing
past participleimmunosuppressed
pastimmunosuppressed

Origin of immunosuppress

From immuno- + suppress. Possibly a back-formation from immunosuppression.

Questions about immunosuppress

What does immunosuppress mean?
Immunosuppress means to cause immunosuppression in.
What part of speech is immunosuppress?
Immunosuppress is a verb.
What is the past tense of immunosuppress?
The past tense of immunosuppress is immunosuppressed.

Words near immunosuppress in the dictionary

  1. immunosupernatant
  2. immunosupernatants
  3. immunosuppresant
  4. immunosuppresion
  5. immunosuppresive
  6. immunosuppress
  7. immunosuppressant
  8. immunosuppressants
  9. immunosuppressed
  10. immunosuppresses
  11. immunosuppressing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: immunosuppress (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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