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supprime

supprime verb: to suppress (in various senses).

Verb

supprime (third-person singular simple present supprimes, present participle suppriming, simple past and past participle supprimed)

  1. (rare) To suppress (in various senses).
    • This triumph of orthodoxy, however, was not able to stop the impuls of the new renaissance, and the taste for a literary and profane art, that had been always supprimed by orthodoxy in Byzantium, prevailed.1914, Speltz, Alexander, The Coloured Ornament of All Historical Styles: With Coloured Plates From Own Paintings in Water Colours, Leipzig: K. F. Koehlers Antiquarium, Second Part: Middle Ages, page...

Forms of supprime

third-person singular presentsupprimes
present participlesuppriming
past participlesupprimed
pastsupprimed

Origin of supprime

From Middle English supprymen, from Middle French supprimer and its etymon Latin supprimere, supprimō (“to press down, suppress”), from sub- (“under, down”) + premō (“to press”).

Questions about supprime

What does supprime mean?
Supprime means to suppress (in various senses).
What part of speech is supprime?
Supprime is a verb.
What is the past tense of supprime?
The past tense of supprime is supprimed.

Words near supprime in the dictionary

  1. suppressogenicity
  2. suppressor
  3. suppressors
  4. suppressory
  5. supprest
  6. supprime
  7. supprimed
  8. supprimes
  9. suppriming
  10. supps
  11. suppuh

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