supprime

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verb

To suppress (in various senses).

OriginMiddle English supprymen ← Middle French supprimer ← Latin supprimere →
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Meanings

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

present singular third person supprimes · participle present suppriming · participle past supprimed · past supprimed

  1. rareTo 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 20

Origin

  1. Latinsupprimere
  2. Middle Frenchsupprimer
  3. Middle Englishsupprymen
  4. Englishsupprime

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”).

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APA

supprime. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/supprime

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“supprime.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/supprime. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “supprime,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/supprime.

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